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.
The union GMB is leading the fight against Croydon Council's plan to close its Crosfield supported factory with the loss of 100 jobs, including 85 local disabled people of which 60% have learning disabilities. Croydon Council directly employs some 10,000 workers but less than 2% of its workforce is disabled.
Crosfield is a supported employement factory and its disabled workers represent 47% of the Council's disabled workforce.
Eurofound (2006), Crosfield Supported Factory, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 62864, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62864.