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.
P&O announced that a further 600 jobs will go after further restructuring of its ferry operations. The company announced 600 redundancies in November 2003 mainly affecting the Dover workforce. Lord Sterling said that the latest staff to be lost were going on a voluntarily basis and that full consultation with employees and unions would occur before any further changes were made.
Eurofound (2004), P&O Nedlloyd, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 59002, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59002.