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.
Wincor Nixdorf, German ATM and cash register manufacturer, will cut around 1,100 jobs worldwide and around 500 jobs within Germany. The austerity program results from a weak demand for ATM machines. Compared with the previous year's result, hardware sales decreased by 12%. Wincor employs a total of 9,000 employees worldwide (more than half of them working in Germany).
Eurofound (2015), Wincor Nixdorf, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 83099, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83099.