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.
Bogwarner, a company manufacturing car parts, is to close down its Margam factory in Wales with the loss of 110 jobs. The company blamed the global economic downturn for the losses, which will be implemented gradually within the next 18 months (from January 2009 to mid 2010).
Eurofound (2008), Borg Warner, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67631, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67631.