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, a company that operates in the airline sector, has announced that 450 managerial positions are to be lost. The airline stated that 1,400 people were offered voluntary redundancy as part of their plan to reduce their costs, and that 450 people had taken the opportunity to leave the airline. As of 12 October 2008, no further information is available as to when, or from which sites, these managers will be leaving.
Eurofound (2008), British Airways, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67216, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67216.