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.
On 25 September 2014, food delivery service Delivery Hero announced to shut down its location in Braunschweig which will affect 128 staff. 47 employees will be dismissed immediately. The remaining 81 jobs will be cut in two further stages by August 2015. The company announced 50 jobs to be vacant in Berlin and clarified that applicants from Braunschweig will be given priority.
Delivery Hero is the operator of lieferheld and pizza.de and has over 10 percent market share of all food orders in Germany.
Eurofound (2014), Delivery Hero, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 77721, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77721.