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.
The textile enterprise Venca has applied for a redundancy procedure affecting 86 employees (18% of its workforce). The redundancies will affect all business areas (e.g. logistic, customer services). The measure is due to a drop in sales.
Eurofound (2011), Venca, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 72614, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72614.