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.
Phoenix, the automotive components manufacturer had already announced a restructuring plan involving the suppression of some 700 jobs at its site in Hamburg-Harburg. Now it is said that the number will be "under 900". Some 350 jobs will be transferred on other production sites of Continental, mostly in Germany.
Eurofound (2004), Phoenix, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 60944, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60944.