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.
Newcastle Production, a food manufacturing company, has closed its factory at Longbenton on Tyneside with the loss of all 359 jobs. The factory was seriously damaged by fire in early January 2009, and a week later announced that it had been placed into administration as a result of cash flow problems. The factory will not re-open.
Eurofound (2009), Newcastle Production, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67839, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67839.