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.
Bindi, one of the leading companies in the dessert sector, is to cut 150 jobs (out of 600) in its plant located at San Giuliano Milanese, in the province of Milan. According to the company, the job cuts are due to the production’s reorganisation, which will be focused on low-cost products. In the next months the company and the trade unions will meet in order to define the use of “social shock absorbers” measurers for the redundant workers.
Eurofound (2013), Bindi, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 75883, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75883.