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.
Stadco, a firm supplying car parts to Jaguar, BMW, Ford amongst others , is to cut 106 jobs at its Llanfyllin site in Wales. The cuts are blamed on the current economic downturn and the falling customer demand. The company committed not to proceed with any compulsory redundancies before March 2009 while there are ongoing consultations with staff and union officials.
Eurofound (2008), Stadco, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67690, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67690.