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 Federal Employment Agency Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) intends to shed 17,000 posts by 2016 in order to save €750 million in administrative costs. The job cuts shall all be realised by natural attrition and by hiring freezes for new staff. The Bundesgentur currently employs 115,300 people.
10000 of these job losses are to be enacted by the end of 2013.
Eurofound (2012), Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 74082, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74082.