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.
Dairy Farms of Britain has announced that it is to close its site at Fole in Staffordshire with the loss of 250 jobs and in Portsmouth with the loss of a further 150 jobs.The company attributed the closure of the sites to rising energy costs and falling cream prices. As of 7 December 2008 a date for final closure has not been announced.
Eurofound (2008), Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFB), Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67583, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67583.