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.
On 28 July 2011, the express mail delivery and logistics company DHL stated its intention to increase its workforce at its hub at the airport Leipzig by 500 in 2012. Job creation is part of a business expansion scheme. Some 3000 people currently work at the hub. DHL is an affiliate of the German postal company Deutsche Post.
Eurofound (2011), DHL, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 72573, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72573.