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.
Legal and General, an insurance company, is to cut 650 jobs across the UK. The firm, which employs 8500 people in offices in London, Surrey, Cardiff and Brighton, is attempting to reduce its costs. As of 25 March 2009 no date has been given for the implementation of these cuts.
Eurofound (2009), Legal and General, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68396, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68396.