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 October 2014, daily newspaper Weser Kurier is to create 100 jobs by insourcing activities which were outsourced some year ago. Staff of external editorial offices and advertising will rejoin the company by January 2015.
According to the management, the insourcing will make operations easier to manage and helps to re-establish a corporate identity. Trade unions have mixed feelings about the decision as the company will continue to pay lower wages to insourced staff.
Eurofound (2014), Weser Kurier, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 77793, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77793.