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.
MTD, US-based manufacturer of motorized gardening equipment, will make 175 people redundant by closing its site in Saarbrücken (Saarland) and offshoring production to Hungary. This is due to weak utilization.
MTD employs 415 people in Saarbrücken; 240 of them work for the administration and will not be relocated.
Eurofound (2013), MTD, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 75418, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75418.