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.
Omron, a Japanese firm manufacturing electronic car components, is to close its Kingswinford site with the loss of 242 jobs. The job losses are blamed on falling demand for new cars and they will occur by 2010.
Eurofound (2009), Omron, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68498, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68498.