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.
Alcoa Howmet, a US manufacturer of turbine airfoils, announced plans to cut up tp 95 jobs in Exeter. The cuts were blamed on a 'big decline in orders'. Unite the union said that they would try to reduce the number of compulsory redundancies. As of November 2009 no date has been given for the implementation of the cuts.
Eurofound (2009), Alcoa Howmet, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 69831, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69831.