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.
Q-Cells, German insolvent solar cell manufacturer, is taken over by Hanwha, a leading company from South Korea, which will result in 199 job losses. As a result of the negotiations with the works council, 1300 employees will be kept within the company. The workers affected from restructuring will have the option to be transfered to a job transfer agency.
Eurofound (2012), Q-Cells, Merger/Acquisition in Germany, factsheet number 74132, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74132.