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.
The supermarket chain Tesco has announced plans to create 180 new jobs at St Austell in Cornwall. The company plans to expand the existing store and hire both full time and part time employees on top of the current 286 staff. As of 25 September 2009 no date has been given for the implementation of the new jobs.
Eurofound (2009), Tesco, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 69584, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69584.