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.
Stangl GmbH announced its plan to cut 150 jobs on the 1,100 employed by the company in Germany as well as in central and eastern Europe. This restructuring plan will affect the sites of Deggendorf (75 on the 450 employed on the site), Halle and Berlin. According to the management, the crisis in the German construction sector and the high costs made these measures unavoidable. A social plan has been set up and some workers will be relocated in other services.
Eurofound (2004), Stangl, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 60583, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60583.