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.
250 jobs at the Corus plant in Workington will be lost when rail track production is switched to Scunthorpe in 2006. Corus claims rail industry demands for longer sections of track can be better met at Scunthorpe.
A Project Corus taskforce was set up after the February 2005 closure announcement to consider options for the Workington site once production transfers in 2006.
Eurofound (2005), Corus, Relocation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61913, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61913.