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.
Spanish media firm, Unidad Editorial, has announced that it will apply a labour force adjustment affecting 224 employees, or around 20% of its entire workforce. The plan will affect 94 workers from the newspaper El Mundo, 16 workers from the economic newspaper Expanisón and 24 from the sport newspaper Marca. The employment adjustment will be executed in a month and it is foreseen that it will finish before July. With the measure, the company aims to cut costs by €15 million in two years.
Eurofound (2016), Unidad Editorial, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 87375, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87375.