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.
Pork Farms, a meat-pie factory, has announced plans to make 90 of its 300 staff redundant from its Nottingham site. The job cuts were blamed on the current economic situation and changes in working practices. The company has entered into a three-month consultation period with staff and trade unions, while voluntary redundancies are considered as an optional measure. As of 7 May 2009 no date has been given for the implementation of the job losses.
Eurofound (2009), Pork Farms, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68871, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68871.