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 pharmaceutics company Boehringer has announced to apply for a Redundancy Procedure affecting 120 employees (6.5% of its workforce in Spain). The measure will only affect sales personnel.
The restructuring is blamed on different cuts in public health expenditure implemented by the Spanish government.
Eurofound (2012), Boehringer, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 74060, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74060.