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.
Gemfire, a fibre optics company, is to cut 250 jobs at its West Lothian site. The company decided to close down the factory blaming the credit crunch. A Livingston MP asked the company for a letter outlining the reasons for the closure. As of November 2008 there is no information on when the job losses will be implemented by.
Eurofound (2008), Gemfire, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67353, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67353.