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.
Contour, a manufacturer of aircraft seats, is to cut up to 244 jobs from its Cwmbran and Torfaen plants in Wales by the end of 2010. The announced redundancies are part of wider cost-cutting initiatives aimed at securing the firms's competitiveness. The company stated that a consultation period would follow as an attempt to mitigate as much of the impact on staff as possible.
Eurofound (2009), Contour, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 69116, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69116.