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.
Bovis, a housebuilder, is to cut 200 jobs across the UK. The firm has been affected by the slowdown in the construction sector, and already reduced its workforce from 1,000 to 600. As of 11 January 2009, the company has not stated when or at which sites these jobs will be cut.
Eurofound (2009), Bovis Homes, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67785, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67785.