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.
Multinational Spanish banking group BBVA has announced that its early retirement scheme for 2014 will affect more than 1,500 jobs. As reported, the bank has decided to expand and accelerate its initial plan for 2014 that was envisaging early retirement for 1,100 employees who are 54 years old or older, due to the need for cost saving measures.
Eurofound (2014), BBVA, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 77932, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77932.