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 House-builder Persimmon has announced that it is to cut 2000 within the UK. Two divisions will be closed and other parts of its business will be merged, other measures to manage its current financial challenges include reaching a deal to extend its debt facility by 2 years. The job cuts reflect an industry wide downturn in business blamed on the credit crunch and a drop in the number of affordable mortgages. As of July 2008, there is no information on when the job cuts will be implemented by.
Eurofound (2008), Persimmon, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 66827, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66827.