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.
More than 200 people working at John Dickinson, a stationery factory, have been told they are likely to lose their jobs. The factory is proposing to close its manufacturing plant at Sawston, Cambridgeshire. Production would be transferred elsewhere, possibly abroad. The threat of redundancy to the 210 employees, some of whom have been there for decades, has been criticised by the union Amicus.
Eurofound (2006), John Dickinson, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 63159, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63159.