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 construction company Comsa will apply for a Redundancy Procedure affecting 298 employees (25% of its workforce). Dismissals are expected to be implemented in the following six months.
Employee's representatives have opened negotiations with the company in order to agree early retirement plans and an outplacement plan for the dismissed workers.
Eurofound (2012), Comsa SAU, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 73831, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73831.