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.
The bulk of the production made in Cambuslang plant will be switched to China where wages are 10 times under those in Scotland. Hoover made no comments on workers rights problems that may arise in China. The measure affects 260 jobs.
Eurofound (2003), Hoover, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60060, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60060.