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.
Germany's Deutsche Bank will relocate to Frankfurt some of its financial services. More specifically trading, risk management, legal and support activities will be moved from London. The main motivation is Brexit since the booking of trades might not be allowed outside of the European Union. The process will begin in the coming weeks, and the final implementation should happen in the end of 2018. As far as jobs relocation regards, the company indicates a few hundred. In the past months media outlets had announced that approximately 4,000 jobs cuts were expected but the company denied it. The relocation is expected to concern also other European locations; at the moment media outlets refer movements to Milan and France.
Eurofound (2018), Deutsche Bank, Reshoring in Germany, factsheet number 87, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87.