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 July 8th, 2011 the online paper Autohaus Online reported that the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota plans to cut 40 out of 306 jobs in Germany until the end of 2011. The job cuts are part of the company's cost-cutting programme to counter its net losses.
Eurofound (2011), Toyota Deutschland, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 72593, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72593.