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.
Vodafone, a mobile telephone service provider, is to cut 500 jobs across the UK. The firm, which employs 10000 people in the UK, is to cut 170 jobs at its headquarters in Newbury, 180 in Stoke, and a further 150 at its sites in Banbury and Warrington. The company is making the cuts in an effort to reduce its costs. As of 1 March 2009 no date has been set for when these redundancies will occur.
Eurofound (2009), Vodafone, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68381, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68381.