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 German Freudenberg Group, a manufacturer of automotive components, announced that is to close the factory in the Zona Franca de Barcelona, with the loss of 141 jobs (of which 121 permanent jobs and 20 temporary jobs). The job losses will be implemented by March 2009.
Eurofound (2008), Freudenberg, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 67138, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67138.