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 company Creaciones Ducal is specialised in the manufacture of textiles and is based in Alzira (Castellón, Valencia). On 6 April 2005, the company announced it was studying the reorganisation of 80% of its workforce, 120 employees out of 150, which would shift contract from fixed to discontinuous, as the poor markets conditions leave the workers unemployed 80 days per year.
Eurofound (2005), Creaciones Ducal, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 61504, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61504.