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.
300 jobs will be created under plans to open a bed factory in Worcester. The 84,000 sq ft (7,804 sq m) Dreams site on the Granada Trading Estate in Oldbury will be able to make thousands of beds every day. It is four times the size of the company's current factory in Perry Barr, Birmingham. The beds will be sold in more than 120 stores across the UK owned by Dreams, which has a turnover of £125m.
Eurofound (2006), Dreams, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64087, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64087.