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.
German furniture manufacturer Hülsta is to cut 170 jobs until the end of 2015. As reported the job reduction measure is due to the low turnover in the sector and is to affect mostly the company’s sites in Stadtlohn and Ottenstein. As announced, the company assured to implement the restructuring in a socially acceptable manner. Hülsta is a German family enterprise and employs 1260 people in total. For previous a restructuring event see HülstaDE- 2013.
Eurofound (2014), Hülsta, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 77028, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77028.