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.
Klemme, a German bakery business, is to create 300 jobs in Eisleben in 2015. Last year the company started building its seventh production plant which is due to go into operation at the beginning of June 2015.
Klemme mainly wants to produce pan cakes and doughnuts in the new plant. Currently, Klemme employs around 1,400 people in Eisleben.
The company was taken over by Swiss Aryzta which has invested 100 million Euros into the new building. In 2012, the company already created 100 new jobs in Eisleben (see Klemme-2012).
Eurofound (2015), Klemme, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 78178, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78178.