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 optical lens manufacturer Indo has announced the delocalisation of production to Thailand with the progressive dismissal of 99 workers in their plant in Vilafant (Gerona) beginning in June 2008 and ending in the first quarter of 2009. The company has agreed the dismissals with each worker.
Eurofound (2008), Indo, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Spain, factsheet number 66902, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66902.