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 retailer Woolworths is to cut 450 jobs from its offices in London and Rochdale.The move comes after the company, which employs 25,000 people in the UK, went into administration in November 2008. As of 7 December 2008 it has not been announced when these job losses will occur.
Eurofound (2008), Woolworths, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67579, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67579.