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.
Jabil Circuits, an electronics manufacturer, is to make 15% of its 450-strong workforce redundant. The West Lothian-based firm is to make 79 redundancies as a result of reduced demand for its products. As of 18 January 2009 the firm has not announced when the redundancies will be made.
Eurofound (2009), Jabil Circuit, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67833, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67833.