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.
On 18 October 2012, it was reported that 44 former IhrPlatz drugstores will be taken over by the retail chain Fuer Sie. This will create some 200 jobs at Fuer Sie.
IhrPlatz had to file for insolvency (see here) after its mother company Schlecker went bankrupt in the beginning of 2012 (see here).
Eurofound (2012), Fuer Sie, Merger/Acquisition in Germany, factsheet number 74463, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74463.