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.
Cable & Wireless is cutting 600 jobs and quitting its central London headquarters of 50 years as it carries out another restructuring of its core UK business in the face of fierce competition and flat revenues. It marks yet another restructuring for a business that has pulled out of the US and Japan and cut 1,500 jobs over the past year. Half the jobs will be lost in Britain, where the company is moving to Bracknell, Berkshire next February from the premises on London's Theobalds Road it opened in 1955. The rest of the job losses will fall in France and Germany as C&W cuts it staff in mainland Europe by more than half.
Eurofound (2004), Cable and Wireless, Internal restructuring in European Union, factsheet number 60750, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60750.