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.
UK insurer Aviva is to cut 1,100 jobs across the UK. The cuts are part of a company programme aimed at simplifying its life and pensions operation. The company stated that it intends to keep compulsory redundancies to a minimum. The job losses will affect 800 permanent staff and they will occur by the end of 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Aviva, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68662, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68662.