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.
Colep is closing its aerosol factory in Scunthorpe with the loss of 150 jobs. Unions and managers were unable to avoid the closure when they met in an attempt to draw up a rescue plan to avoid redundancies. No date was given for the closure.
Eurofound (2009), Colep, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 69272, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69272.