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.
At the beginning of January, German airliner Lufthansa announced their intention to hire 4,000 new employees in 2011. 2,200 flight attendants and 900 airport service staff will be hired for operations at Frankfurt and Munich and the company plans initiate 270 pilot trainees and 300 people in vocational training.
Eurofound (2011), Lufthansa, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 71550, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71550.