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.
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Pharmaceutical manufacturer Esteve will apply for a redundancy procedure (ERE) affecting 225 employees from its pharmaceutical division (15% of its entire workforce). The measure is attributed to a drop in the revenues recorded in this area. Before the company applied for the ERE, the restructuring started with around 90 job losses via early retirement schemes and non-renewal of temporary contracts.
Eurofound (2013), Esteve, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 75459, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75459.