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.
Bitzer, German manufacturer of refrigerant compressors, has announced to create 80 new jobs at its site in Ergenzingen over the next three years. The planned job creation is part of the company's spatial expansion of production and warehouse space.
Bitzer employs 3,000 people worldwide of which 500 are employed at the site in Ergenzingen. Employment figures in Ergenzingen have almost doubled between 2003 and 2012.
Eurofound (2012), Bitzer, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 74075, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74075.