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.
Spanair, local affiliate of Swedish group SAS, has announced a workforce reduction plan. 1100 employees will lose their jobs: 120 pilots, 220 stewards, 180 handling employees, 120 in maintenance, 270 office employees and 150 airport customer service staff. The CEO of Spanair, Marcus Hedblom, said that the company's headquarters will stay in Palma and explained that the airline has launched a viability plan involving dismissals and fleet reduction.
For more information, see EIRO report.
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