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.
German airline Lufthansa plans to cut 3,500 administrative jobs over the next three years. Some 2,500 jobs will be lost in its home market in Germany.
Lufthansa attributes its new cost-cutting programme to increasing fuel costs and higher air passenger taxes. In the first quarter of 2012, Lufthansa made a net loss of EUR 397mn
Eurofound (2012), Lufthansa, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 73522, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73522.