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.
Panrico is a spanish company which makes bread and cakes. It has been bought by the capital fund Apax Partners and it has announned the closure of the centre that is located in Villaverde, a neighbourhood in the city of Madrid.
The company has committed to avoid dismissals and will offer early retirement or move the employees to other centres. It has not announced if the employees will be offered to move to other centres in Spain or abroad.
Eurofound (2006), Panrico, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 63443, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63443.