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.
The German stock exchange Deutsche Börse has announced it will cut 350 jobs due to internal restructuring by 2020. This will also affect 50 senior executives. The new head of Deutsche Börse plans to reduce costs by €100 million by 2020 in order to increase the company's growth. At the same time, Deutsche Börse will invest €270 million in new technologies such as blockchain, big-data-analysis, clouds and robotics.
As of June 2018, Deutsche Börse employs about 5,640 people world wide, of which approximately 2,500 work in Germany.
Eurofound (2018), Deutsche Börse, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 94299, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/94299.