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.
Angelini Beauty is a perfume retailer that is a part of the Italian group Angelini. The company decided to reorganise its Spanish subsidiary located in Barcelona, and planned to lay off 38 of its199 workers. More specifically, the following activities will be relocalised in the company head office in Italy (Lodi, near Milan): marketing and communications, suppliers relation and sales analysis. The relocation is the consequence of a reorganisation process started at the beginning of the year when the general management function was relocated to Lodi.
Eurofound (2018), Angelini Beauty, Reshoring in Italy, factsheet number 68, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68.