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.
Hoover, a manufacturer of electrical goods, is to finish production at its site in Merthyr Tydfil with the loss of all 337 production jobs. Production is being halted on 14 March 2009 as Hoover says the costs of making goods at the site are too high. The company will keep its headquarters at the site, which will continue to employ 113 people.
Eurofound (2009), Hoover, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68460, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68460.