Ethics in the digital workplace
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
Electricity producer STEAG announced to implement a new restructuring programme that includes plans for cutting around 200 job until 2013. Additionally, starting in 2015 power plant closures will put another 400 jobs at risk.
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