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.
The Textiles Company Ignacio Carner has decided its closure making 240 redundancies effective. The company has had losses amounting to 7,8 million euros during the last three years. It had specialised in the manufacture of pullovers. The company decided to close due to the impossibility to compete with Asian manufacturers.
Eurofound (2004), Ignacio Carner, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 60332, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60332.