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.
Car trim manufacturer Hutchinson UK is to close a factory in Shropshire with the loss of 130 jobs. Hutchinson has been based at Trench Lock for 13 years and there used to be about 400 employees in the workforce. The plant in Telford will shut in January 2006 as work is transferred to operations in Europe.
Eurofound (2005), Hutchinson UK, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 62386, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62386.