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.
Exi, the service company of the Ericsson group, announced the start of a voluntary dismissal procedure for 150 workers. There are fears that after the loss of a maxi tender with Vodafone the dismissal procedure might be transformed from voluntary to non-voluntary and that workers will be asked to transfer to the companies that have won the tender.
The trade unions oppose the proposed plan and ask for the re-integration of the workforce within the mother company. They also asked the company to negotiate in good faith on the proposed redundancies and required the involvement of local institutions.
Eurofound (2020), Exi, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 99798, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99798.