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.
Austrian engineering firm VA Tech has announced the closure of its Edinburgh plant with the loss of 225 jobs. The shutdown of the factory, which trades as Peebles Transformers Limited in Leith, will begin almost immediately. The company said poor demand for its electrical transformers was the cause.
Eurofound (2004), Peebles Transformers Limited, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60648, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60648.