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.
DHL is to cut 300 jobs at a distribution depot in Northamptonshire. The company has decided to close the warehouse in Daventry because it lacks the capacity to cope with expected growth. 150 staff have already lost their jobs, while 150 more jobs will go by 27 March 2009.
Eurofound (2009), DHL, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68500, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68500.