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.
Intrum España, a Swedish multinational company dedicated to mortgage debt collection, has officially presented an empleyment redundancy file (ERE) that will affect 600 people in all its centres in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Almería, Alicante, Valencia, Huelva, Zaragoza and Valladolid). The company will begin talks with workers' representatives in the coming days, and it expects to complete the ERE before the summer.
Intrum has a total volume of assets under management in Spain of more than 60,000 thousand million euros, including more than 200,000 real estate assets. The trade union UGT has expressed its opposition to this redundancy plan and has expressed its surprise at it.
Eurofound (2024), Intrum españa, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 201122, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201122.