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.
UK Home-builders Bovis Homes has announced that it plans to cut 400 jobs. The company announced that the job losses would be from both office and site based jobs. The job cuts reflect an industry wide downturn in business blamed on the credit crunch and a drop in the number of affordable mortgages. Sales at Bovis in the six months ending in June were down 30%. As of July 2008, there is no information on when the job losses will be implemented by.
Eurofound (2008), Bovis Homes, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 66824, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66824.