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 multinational cable maker General Cable has agreed a plan with unions to cut 145 jobs across four centres in Catalonia. 206 dismissals had been planned by the company, which has suffered a severe drop in sales since 2009 with no confidence of a recovery soon. The 145 layoffs are to be made through voluntary redundancise and early retirement.
Eurofound (2010), General Cable, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 70561, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70561.