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.
King UK, a catering supplier, is to cut 320 jobs across England and Wales. Administrators failed to find buyers for the business and as a result, company sites in Rugby, Hemel Hempstead, Cumbernauld, Northampton, Plymouth, Skemelsdale, Birmigham, Medway, Rotherham and Cardiff are to close down. As of 22 March 2009, no date has been confirmed for the closure.
Eurofound (2009), King UK, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68532, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68532.