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.
Manufacturing firm GKN Aerospace is to cut 135 jobs at its Yeovil site. The cuts represent over a third of jobs on the site. Management at the site have announced that some workers will be offered redeployment, and the company is engaging with trade union Unite about redeployment options. No dates have been announced for when the cuts will take place, but a 90-day consultation period has begun.
Eurofound (2009), GKN, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 69707, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69707.