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.
BGP, a printing company, is to cut over 10% of its workforce in Bicester in Oxfordshire. The firm, which employs 500 people, is to cut 57 jobs as it closes down two obsolete presses. The jobs are expected to be lost in one month.
Eurofound (2009), BGP, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68395, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68395.