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.
London Underground is to cut 1,000 jobs. The cuts will affect temporary and administrative posts including staff working in finance, IT, procurement, human resources and legal departments. The company committed to keep mandatory redundancies to a minimun whereas the unions threatened with a ballot for industrial action if compulsory redundancies were imposed. As of 29 January 2009 there is no information on when the job losses will occur.
Eurofound (2009), London Underground, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68018, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68018.