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.
Computer retailer PC City has presented an Employment Regulation Plan that will affect 1,224 workers. The company has announced to its Workers' Council the decision to close all of their 34 stores and their headquarters in Spain because of a continuous decrease in consumer demand and cumulative losses.
Eurofound (2011), PC City, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 71858, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71858.