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.
Gibsons Food, a food manufacturer, is to close its factory at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire with the loss of all 245 jobs. The company’s parent company, Hot Bread Kitchens, went into administration in early January 2009. As of 18 January 2009 the company has not announced a final date for closure.
Eurofound (2009), Gibsons Food, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67837, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67837.