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.
On 24th January, Philips announced its decision to relocate the manufacturing of replacement lights for automotive headlights from Plauen to Poland. 130 out of 440 workers at the Plauen plant will be dismissed. In Plauen, management and the local works council have agreed on a social plan which will envisage the transfer of redundant employees to a job transfer agency.
Eurofound (2011), Philips, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 71509, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71509.