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 staff of publishing company Bertelsmann was informed by management that 130 out of 692 jobs will be shed at the headquarter in Gütersloh. The cuts of administrative jobs is part of a plan to save EUR 25mn at the headquarter from 2009 onwards. It is part of a major programme to cut costs by EUE 900 mn. Moreover, 20 administrative jobs will be shed at the New York and at the Bejing (China) office.
Eurofound (2009), Bertelsmann, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 69673, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69673.