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.
Bernard Matthews, a poultry manufacturing firm, is to cut 130 jobs. The firm, with plants in both Norfolk and Suffolk, is to cut 35 salaried workers and 95 hourly-paid production workers from its staff of 2,510. The firm is cutting staff after the Christmas peak, but as of 18 January 2009 has not announced when these jobs will be lost.
Eurofound (2009), Bernard Matthews, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67836, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67836.