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.
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, which runs Broomfield Hospital and St John's Hospital in Chelmsford, has already cut 150 posts to make savings. More than 100 additional jobs could be cut at the two hospitals in Essex to help meet a £14m budget deficit, a health trust revealed on Wednesday in an attempt to save an additional £7m this year.
Andrew Pike, the chief executive of the Mid Essex trust, told the BBC News website that the hospitals were looking at making savings 'across the board. We are looking at everything'.
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