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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WAZ Group, the German newspaper and media group Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, announced to cut 120 jobs at its subsidiary Westfälische Rundschau (WR).
The Ruhr region and Westfalia-based WR is the only WAZ newspaper not making profits as it struggles with regional competitors. The job cuts, which will start in 2013, will affect journalists and administrative staff. A clear time line of the restructuring is not yet given.
WR-stakeholders and the trade union stage protests.
Eurofound (2013), Westfälische Rundschau, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 74806, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74806.