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.
Bakkavor, a food manufacturer, is to cut up to 400 jobs at its sites in Lincolnshire by April 2009. The company employs 2,000 people across three sites at Exotic Farm Produce in Kirton, Freshcook in Holbeach and Bakkavor Spalding in Spalding. The company has entered a 90 day consultation with its staff. The job losses are attributed to the need to restructure the business as a result of current economic conditions.
Eurofound (2009), Bakkavor, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67740, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67740.