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.
British tobacco company Imperial Tobacco will cut 200 jobs at its cigarette factory in Berlin and transfer production to Poland. The fourth-largest tobacco-company in the world plans to save £10 million per year. Affected workers will be offered jobs at Imperial Tobacco's other factories in Langenhagen (Germany) or Tarnowo (Poland).
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