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.
Klemme, a German producer of frozen bakery products, will create 100 additional jobs in a new plant in Eisleben, Saxony. Two production lines are already running and another two are to follow soon. Eisleben is the sixth Klemme plant. The company has been rapidly expanding and plans to increase sales to 230mn Euro in 2012 (by 2010, total sales were around €150 mio.).
Eurofound (2012), Klemme, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 74107, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74107.