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.
US-based multinational pharmaceutical firm Merck has applied for a redundancy procedure affecting 20 % of its Spanish workforce. 200 employees will be affected by this procedure, which was recently agreed with the Trade Unions.
The company has blamed the measure on the changes in the Spanish health sector aiming to save costs and the need to optimise resources.
Eurofound (2012), Merck, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 73711, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73711.