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.
BMW, a carmaker, has announced that it has to cut 850 jobs at its Mini plant in Cowley in Oxfordshire. The plant, which employs 4,500 people, had already made job cuts in December, but because of falling demand for cars the company has deemed it necessary to make further cuts. The jobs have been cut with immediate effect.
Eurofound (2009), BMW, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68282, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68282.