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.
Exide Technologies, a company manufacturing batteries for automotive and industrial purposes, is to close down its Bolton plant moving production to Germany. More than 400 jobs will be lost but as of 4 August 2009 there is no further information on the terms and conditions of the redundancy package.
Eurofound (2009), Exide, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 69373, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69373.