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.
Atento is a company that belongs to Telefonica Group. Telefonica used to be the telecommunications public company and was privatised in the 1990s. Atento announced on 31 May 2006 the dismissal of 184 employees in Sevilla (Andalucia) before 30 June 2006. According to CCOO, one of the two most important trade unions in Spain, the company is going to offshore these jobs to Latin America. The trade unions have announced a strike for 9 June 2006.
Eurofound (2006), Atento, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Spain, factsheet number 63565, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63565.