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.
Subway, a chain of sandwich shops, is to create 7,000 jobs across the UK and Ireland. The chain is currently planning to add a further 600 stores to the 1400 stores it currently operates in the UK. It is not known how many of these stores are in the UK, and how many of the 7,000 planned new jobs across the UK and Ireland will be in the UK. As of 15 February 2009 it is not known when these new stores will be opened.
Eurofound (2009), Subway, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68181, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68181.