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.
Supermarket chain Tesco announced plans to close its distribution centre in Middlewich resulting in the loss of 426 jobs. The cuts are a result of Tesco's decision to halt plans to build a superstore in the area. The company has been in consultation with unions and hopes to deploy staff to different sites and to keep compulsory redundancies to a minimum.
Eurofound (2010), Tesco, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 70269, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70269.