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.
Nestlé has announced 270 job losses at its Easter Egg and Quality Street making Halifax plant. The reductions would almost halve the number employed at the plant and have a 'devastating' impact on the local community according to the Transport and General Workers Union. 200 seasonal workers will be employed.
Eurofound (2004), Nestlé, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 59059, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59059.