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.
German publisher Wissen Media, a subsidiary of the media group Bertelsmann will close, making up to 300 employees redundant. This measure was taken due to a decreasing demand for the printed version of the German encyclopedia Brockhaus, which the company published since 1810.
Eurofound (2013), Wissen Media Verlag, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 75560, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75560.