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.
Airbus is to cut 250 agency jobs at its Flintshire plant in Wales. The cuts are blamed on a downturn in orders. Unions are in talks with the company in order to keep compulsory redundancies to a minimum. As of 23 March 2009 no date has been announced for the implementation of the job losses.
Eurofound (2009), Airbus, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68609, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68609.