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.
Track company Network Rail says it wants to retrain them to fill vacancies in the Birmingham area and nearly 200 of the 5,000 employees being made redundant by MG Rover could be offered jobs working on the railways. They said that the electrical and engineering skills of the Longbridge car workers will transfer well to the railways, it says.
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