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 Delphi Group is a multinational specialised in the manufacture of components for motor vehicles. The Group has launched a restructuring plan for its factories all over the world with up to 8,500 redundancies. The Delphi Group has several plants in Spain, one in Puerto Real (Cadiz, Andalusien, Spain) with 1,500 employees. Negotiations are taking place between management and labour representatives to agree on a job reduction plan which involves 250 redundancies.
Eurofound (2004), Delphi, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 60918, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60918.