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.
British Airways is to sell BA Connect, its regional air transport operation, to air operator Flybe with the loss of 'a couple of hundred jobs'. Willie Walsh, BA chief executive, said the point-to-point regional operations of BA Connect, based chiefly in Manchester and Birmingham, were not considered a strategic core activity and would be 'better undertaken by a regional low-cost airline'.
BA Connect has a workforce of 1,900. Jim French, Flybe chief executive, said there would be 'a couple of hundred job losses'.
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