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.
First Milk, a cheese packing plant based in Maelor near Wrexham, is to cut over 20% of its staff. The firm, which employs 250 people, has announced it is to make 52 workers redundant as it looks to reduce the volume of cheese that it makes at the site. As of 15 February 2009, no announcement has been made as to when these jobs will be lost.
Eurofound (2009), First Milk, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68172, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68172.