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.
Insolvent Telefunken Semiconductors will cease production in Heilbronn by February 2015 which will make 135 jobs redundant.
In the seventies, the company employed around 2,500 people in Heilbronn. However, Telefunken suffered from technological change and has filed for bankruptcy twice in the past year.
Eurofound (2014), Telefunken Semiconductors, Bankruptcy in Germany, factsheet number 77958, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77958.