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 30 July 2014, German glass manufacturer Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau is to dismiss all of its 220 employees by October 2014. The company has filed for bankruptcy in May and failed to find an investor. According to the insolvency administrator a social plan including severance payments for the dismissed has been set up with a budget of €1.3 million .
Eurofound (2014), Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau, Bankruptcy in Germany, factsheet number 77378, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77378.