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.
ACC Spain, a manufacturer of industrial compressors for refrigerators, has announced the closing of the factory Cervera (Lerida), with 180 employees. ACC in 2003 received some aid from 15 million euros to settle in the old Lear plant. In another plant in Catalonia ACC has also announced a dossier of employment regulation that affects 60 employees.
Eurofound (2008), ACC Spain, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 66923, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66923.