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.
T-Systems Iberia, the corporate services division of Deutsche Telekom in Spain, has presented a redundancy procedure (expediente de regulación de empleoor ERE) to dismiss 239 employees. A total 196 workers will lose their job, while the remaining 23 will be laid-off for a period of six months. The company assumes full responsibility for employing again the 23 workers after the six-month period expires. The company also offers to 20 workers - aged 56 years - the possibility to take early retirement.
Eurofound (2009), T-Systems Iberia, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 68034, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68034.