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.
Spanish retail chain Vidal Europa has agreed a labour force adjustment plan with its works committee, which will affect 122 jobs in its supermarket division, whilst 500 jobs will remain safe. This comes after the firm reduced its network of stores (including Masymas, Consum and Hiperber stores) from 56 to 39.
Eurofound (2011), Vidal Europa, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 72140, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72140.