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.
More than 120 jobs in the balance at Shimizu Industry UK, a manufacturer of car parts. It is to tranfer operations from its site in Telford to Welshpool in mid-Wales. The relocation was blamed on a decline in orders and the current economic turbulence. The company has entered a three-month consultation period with the unions and as of 22 March 2009, the precise number of redundancies and the relocation date have not been confirmed.
Eurofound (2009), Shimizu Industry UK, Relocation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68534, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68534.