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.
UK music group EMI has said it plans to axe 1,800 jobs - about one fifth of its workforce - in an attempt to cut costs. EMI recorded music is to lay off a fifth of its workforce, reduce its artist roster by a fifth, and outsource all its UK and USA manufacture of CDs and DVDs. The moves are part of a bid by the company to save £50m a year.
The job cuts form part of a wider restructuring exercise aimed at shoring up the heavily-indebted company's battered finances.
Eurofound (2004), EMI, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 59979, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59979.