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.
Jarvis, a railway engineering firm, is to cut 450 jobs across the UK. The cuts are blamed on delays in engineering contracts. The company is in consultation with the unions over the job losses and as of 6 April 2009, there is no further information on when the redundancies will occur and which sites they will affect.
Eurofound (2009), Jarvis, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68671, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68671.