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.
Speedy Hire, a company that hires tools and machinery, is to cut 492 jobs. The company attributed the cuts to the need to reduce costs as the construction sector declines. The company, which employs 5000 staff across 500 branches, will close 38 of its sites, although as of 30 November 2008 it is not known which sites will close or when these closures will occur.
Eurofound (2008), Speedy Hire, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67522, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67522.