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.
Wrightbus, a manufacturer of coaches and buses, is to cut 235 jobs in Ballymena, County Antrim. The company, which employs 1000 people, has experienced reduced numbers of orders for its vehicles. As of 1 March 2009 no date has been set for these cuts.
Eurofound (2009), Wrightbus, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68383, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68383.