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.
Heil Trailer International, the tanker truck maunufacturer, is to close its Bilston factory after a presence there of 168 years. The 100 jobs are to be lost as the work is transferred to factories in Poland, Thailand and Argentina.
Eurofound (2004), Heil Trailer International, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60493, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60493.