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.
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Tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris announced to shut down one of its three German manufacturing plants for cigarettes(Munich) in 2009. 400 workers will be dismissed. Philip Morris keeps 37% of the German cigarette market, yet declared the plant closure to be a consequence of a 32% decline of cigarette selling since 2002.
Eurofound (2006), Philip Morris, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 63755, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63755.