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.
Airfoil Technologies International has announced plans to shut down its plant in Ripley making 170 employees redundant. The job cuts were blamed on the downturn in the aviation industry. As of 17 May 2009 no date has been given for the implementation of the redundancies.
Eurofound (2009), Airfoil Technologies International, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68907, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68907.