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.
British Airways has announced plans to cut 1200 jobs. The cuts are blamed on a revenue fall of 13.7% to £4.1bn over the six-month summer holiday season , compared with £4.75bn in 2008. As of 9 November 2009 no specific date has been given for the implementation of the redundancies. However, the latest announcement means that the airline will have cut a total of 4,900 positions by March 2010.
Eurofound (2009), British Airways, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 69801, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69801.