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 food products group Kraft Foods has informed local unions in Barcelona of its intention to cut approximately 300 jobs, mainly in the administrative and commercial divisions. The job cuts come as a consequence of the acquisition of UK chocolate maker Cadbury earlier this year. No information has been given either on the number employed at the Barcelona site or when the job losses will be implemented by.
Eurofound (2010), Kraft Foods, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 71504, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71504.