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.
Administrators were brought in to Pressworks Metals in Newton Aycliffe after the company suffered a massive cash flow crisis. More than 100 staff have already lost their jobs and the remaining 192 only have guaranteed work until Christmas.
Eurofound (2004), Pressworks Metals, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60785, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60785.