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.
Multinational enterprise Unilever has applied for a redundancy procedure affecting the entire workforce of its plant located in Aranjuez. 166 people will be affected by the closure of the plant, which is specialised in the manufacturing of soap. The closure is blamed on the reduction of sales in Europe.
Eurofound (2012), Unilever, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 73695, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73695.