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.
Budelpack COSi, a cosmetics company, has announced that 263 workers at their plant in Maesteg in Bridgend have been made redundant. The company is currently in administration and if a buyer is not found by 19 December 2008 then the site will close with the loss of the remaining 126 positions at the site.
Eurofound (2008), Budelpack COSi, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67526, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67526.