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.
Fagor, a Spanish manufacturer of domestic appliances, has announced that it is to cut 150 jobs at its plants in the Basque Country. The job losses will be achieved through early retirements and relocations to other cooperatives in Mondragon. The reason behind this decision is the drop in sales triggered by the international economic crisis.
Eurofound (2008), Fagor, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 67294, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67294.