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.
Nortel Networks UK, a telecoms company, is to cut 150 jobs across the UK after going into administration in January 2009. The posts are being cut from the Maidenhead headquarters, Newtownabbey in County Antrim and Harlow, Essex, according to former workers. The cuts were blamed on falling revenues. No redundancy pay was given to employees, in order to secure the company's future according to the administrators.
Eurofound (2009), Nortel Networks Corporation, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 69204, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69204.