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 pharmaceutical company Uriach has announced to the unions that it will launch a job reduction plan (Expediente de Regulacion de Empleo in Spanish, ERE) over the next week which will affect 100 workers. The decision to cut the 100 jobs is attributed to both the financial losses from 2004 and the global economic crisis.
Eurofound (2009), Uriach, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 67945, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67945.