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 American carmaker Ford will cut 1,300 jobs at its factory in Cologne. Employees have received offers for early retirement or compensations. There shall be no direct dismissals. Ford's move is to increase the Cologne factory's competitiveness. Ford's mother company is suffering huge losses .
Eurofound (2005), Ford, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 62516, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62516.