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 airline operator EasyJet has announced the creation of 120 new jobs in Spain. This is a consequence of the company's announcement to bring in four new aircrafts to boost the seasonal bases (for the summer of 2022) of Malaga and Palma de Mallorca in view of the prospects of air traffic recovery. These bases will reach twelve aircrafts (five in Malaga and seven In Palma de Mallorca). With this, EasyJet will have 16 aircrafts, adding the four it has at Barcelona airport. The new employees will work on the service of these four additional aircraft. This announcement comes after the adjustments that EasyJet implemented during 2020 and 2021 in the UK and France.
Eurofound (2021), EasyJet, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 105363, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105363.