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.
Indesit, a manufacturer of electrical goods, is to close its factory in Bodelwyddan in Denbighshire, North Wales with the loss of all 305 jobs. The company has stated that demand for the products made at the site has declined. The factory will close on 31 July 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Indesit, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68449, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68449.