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.
Bread producer Bimbo has announced a redundancy procedure which will result in the loss of 600 sales and customer service jobs across 52 sites in Spain. According to latest media reports, the majority of the dismissed workers will have the option of continuing working for the company as self-employed. The negotiations with the unions relating the redundancy procedure are ongoing. As April 2011, there is no information on when the job cuts will be implemented by.
Eurofound (2011), Bimbo, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 71866, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71866.