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.
Orbea is a Spanish company that produces bycicles (65 millions revenues in 2013) for the internal and external (30%) markets. The company has decided to reshore its production from Kunshan (China) to Aveiro (Portugal) in order to increase product customization and reduce the time of production. The new plant should be operative from 30th June 2015.
Eurofound (2015), Orbea, Reshoring in Portugal, factsheet number 177, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/177.