A Journey to Twinland: Enterprise and Human Rights in the Era of Twin Transition

Corptech, Roboboard, Robocompany, digital sustainability in the business world: what are we talking about? It is clear that we are no longer referring only to companies that control machines but rather to machines that control companies, and they do it as well as (some would say even better than) humans. A massive flow of data penetrates the collective enterprise, reconfiguring it—according to experts—in line with the paradigm of so-called “flat organizations.” The fundamental danger of such flattening is obvious. Human behaviors and attitudes that cannot be measured in physical or monetary terms simply disappear, as they are completely overshadowed by a two-dimensional view of the enterprise. On the other hand, this is an inevitable outcome when social and cultural values, in order to be taken into account, must be“calculated” according to a supposedly purely quantitative and cognitively neutral standard. The twin transition, both ecological and digital, is transforming business circuits as organizations, economic entities, and contractual relationships. In the framework of digital governance, the primacy of human right risks being “eroded” by the drastic econometric compartmentalization of the social interests that they are meant to embody and guarantee. In the end, this could in fact perniciously transform the effectiveness of fundamental rights and principle s into the mere calculability of some of their quantifiable and computable projections.