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.
As announced on 8 October 2013, Austria-based furnishing house chain XXXLutz will close its branch in Munich (Bavaria) and thus make 160 people redundant.
This is reported to be due to small warehousing space. The employees will be immediately released from duty.
Eurofound (2013), XXXLutz, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 75966, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75966.