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.
Stokes Forgings, a manufacturer of car components, is to close its factory in Walsall with the loss of all 137 jobs. The firm attributed the closure to the reduction in demand in the car manufacturing industry, although it will keep its plants at Dudley and Brierly Hill open. The plant will be shut in April 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Stokes Forgings, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67784, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67784.