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.
Zamek, a German producer of soups and spices, is to dismiss 85 employees at its headquarters in Düsseldorf. As reported the job losses are due to the company’s bankruptcy. In the middle of May, Zamek discharged 120 employees. Now, 85 of them will actually have to leave the company.
Eurofound (2014), Zamek, Bankruptcy in Germany, factsheet number 77140, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77140.