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.
Waterford Wedgwood announced the closing of two British factories and the switch to a lower cost producer in China. The decision to relocate was made because the wing had been loss-making for a number of years and the production in the Far East would be 70% cheaper.
Eurofound (2003), Waterford Wedgwood, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 59575, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59575.