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.
Serious Food Ltd, a food manufacturer, is to cut 327 jobs at its Llantrisant site in south east Wales. The company has already made 127 of its 420 staff redundant after going into administration in November 2008. The administrators failed to find buyers for the business and they announced a further 200 job losses in February 2009. The cuts were blamed on the current trading conditions. The site now operates with 90 staff only.
Eurofound (2009), Serious Food, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68021, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68021.