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.
Qjump, an online sales website owned by National Express, is to close due to its merger with Trainline. The latter, owned by the Virgin Group, has given Qjump three months to come up with a 'commercially viable' proposal. Otherwise, all of its 200 staff will face redundancy.
Eurofound (2004), Qjump, Merger/Acquisition in United Kingdom, factsheet number 59168, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59168.