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.
High Street bank Lloyds TSB is to cut 566 jobs as it attempts to reduce costs in its back office operations. Posts will go in London and Tonbridge in Kent and will also see three offices close in Glasgow, Chorley in Lancashire and Newton Aycliffe in County Durham. Lloyds TSB is also relocating hundreds of staff in Birmingham, Bristol and Brighton as part of a strategy to operate fewer, larger offices.
Eurofound (2006), Lloyds, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 63137, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63137.