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.
Swedish domestic appliance manufacturer Electrolux has announced that it will be closing its Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) factory in 2011. The company has 450 staff there. The closure will be completed during the first quarter of 2011 and will involve an expenditure of around 440 million Swedish crowns (approximately 43 million euro).
Eurofound (2009), Electrolux, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 69896, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69896.