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.
Novelis, an aluminium factory, is to close its plant in Newport with the loss of all 440 jobs. The company has attributed the closure to a decline in orders. The factory will close by the end of April 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Novelis, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68453, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68453.