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.
Düsseldorfer Rheinbahn plans to reduce its workforce by 480 units by 2007 in order to reduce its costs by 20.3 million. There should be no direct dismissals. The work council already expressed its disappointment; during the last years some 1,000 jobs had already been shed to reduce the deficit from 122 to 73 millions.
Eurofound (2004), Düsseldorfer Rheinbahn, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 60598, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60598.