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.
UBI Banca, one of the main Italian banking groups, announced the 2011-15 reorganisation plan. The plan envisages a wide reorganisation at the branch level and 1,000 job-losses by the 2015. The trade unions harshly criticised the bank plan. Ubi Banca has around 19,700 employees.
Eurofound (2011), Ubi Banca, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 72213, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72213.