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.
Oi, a Brazilian Telecommunications Company, has announced the dismissal of 170 employees in its back office in Lisbon (approximately one-third of its workforce). The dismissals will start in February 2015.
The services supplied by these employees will be transferred to Brazil.
Eurofound (2015), Oi, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Portugal, factsheet number 78248, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78248.