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.
US-based Sykes Enterprises' plan to lay off 241 people at a telemarketing plant in A Coruña has been accepted by the Spanish Labout Inspectorate. The firm had lost some major contracts to rival companies recently. A plan to cut another 39 jobs in Lupo was rejected by the relevant authorities.
Eurofound (2010), Sykes Enterprises, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 70489, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70489.