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.
Eshor, the construction company, based in Fene (A Coruña), is planning to dismiss half of its payroll by means of a Layoff Plan to get rid of 150 posts of the 342 workers the company employs before February 2009. The management of the construction company, which achieved profits of around five million euros in 2007, informed the company committee of its plans in a meeting held two days ago.
Eurofound (2008), Eshor, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 67653, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67653.