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.
As announced on 9 January 2012, multinational fast-food chain McDonald's will create 2,000 jobs and 1,000 vocational training places in Germany in 2012. In 2011, McDonald's has recruited 2,000, a press release states.
The press release also stated that recruitment of own vocational trainees is especially important due to skills shortages.
McDonald's employs 64,000 people in Germany.
Eurofound (2012), McDonald's, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 72963, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72963.