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.
Seidensticker, a German manufacturer of shirts, is to cut 70 out of 500 jobs in Bielefeld and relocate some production functions to Vietnam.
Seidensticker is to set up a transfer agency for the dismissed employees. With the reorganization, the company intends to increase profitability.
Eurofound (2015), Seidensticker, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 79116, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79116.