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.
Household appliances manufacturer BSH has applied for a redundancy procedure affecting 178 workers at its plant in EsquÃroz (Navarra). The works council blames the measure on the intention of the enterprise to put pressure on them in order to sign a new company agreement entailing worse working conditions.
Eurofound (2011), BSH, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 72325, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72325.