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.
Siemens Wind Power, manufacturer of large windmills, announced on the 7th of February 2012 that up to 270 employees will be made redundant during the following months.
The redundancies are to be seen as part of a plan to restructure the company after a period of substantial growth. Siemens Wind Power hired up to 1000 employees during all 2011.
Eurofound (2012), Siemens Wind Power, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 73282, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73282.