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 company Fornica, specialized in the manufacture of veneer sheets, will close its plant located in Galdakao (the Basque Country). The closure implies the dismissal of 240 workers. The measure is blamed on a drop in production by 40%.
After the closure of the plant in Galdakao, the company's only remaining plant in will be located in Valencia.
Eurofound (2012), Formica, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 73925, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73925.