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 ceramics and tiles group Villeroy & Boch plans to cut some 330 jobs until 2007 on the site of Mettlach. The job cuts were justified by sluggish consumer spending, increasing competition from low-wage countries and new technological developments in the tableware sector. The group employs worldwide some 10,000 people.
Eurofound (2005), Villeroy & Boch, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 61341, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61341.