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.
On 4 July 2006 Banco Sabadell payed 762 million Euro to buy Banco Urquijo. The latter employed 800 people until now. Its main activity is to manage business assets. As a consequence of this operation 1254 jobs will be reduced, 190 of them belonging to Banco Urquijo. All of the 1254 job cuts will be preretirements, from age 53.
Eurofound (2006), Banco Sabadell, Merger/Acquisition in Spain, factsheet number 63834, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63834.