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.
Legrand, a Portuguese electrical equipment specialist, will submit to the Portuguese authorities and sector trade unions a plan for a 77 worker reduction in its current workforce of 390.The company justifies this dismissal with a dramatic reduction in sales in the export market due to the economic recession in Spain, Greece, Poland, Turkey and Russia among others.
Eurofound (2009), Legrand, Internal restructuring in Portugal, factsheet number 69196, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69196.