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.
Bodycote, a company that specialises in the treatment of car and aeroplane components, is to cut ten percent of its staff at its site in Macclesfield. The company, which employs 7000 people at the site, has experienced reduced demand. The jobs will be cut in the first half of 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Bodycote, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68392, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68392.