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 Repostería Martinez, owned by the Sara Lee Group, is specialised in the production of biscuits and is based in El Espinar (Segovia, Castilla y Leon, Spain) and in Briviesca (Burgos,Castilla y Leon, Spain). On 6 October 2005 the company announced the closure of the plant in El Espinar with the creation of 150 redundancies. The company will concentrate its production in the Briviesca plant with 400 employees.
Eurofound (2005), Reposteria Martinez, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 62389, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62389.