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.
Fairline Boats, a company manufacturing luxury boats, is to cut 275 jobs at its Oundle and Weldon sites in Northamptonshire. The cuts are due to falling demand and will affect staff in production and administration. The company will implement the job losses in March 2009.
Eurofound (2008), Fairline Boats, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67691, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67691.