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.
Car parts firm Thyssenkrupp Tallent announced plans to close its Bourn site resulting in the loss of about 490 jobs. The GMB Union said representatives were trying to save as many jobs as possible, while Peter Scherrer from the European Metal Workers Federation has flown in to lend support to workers. As of 6 March 2010 no date has been given for the closure.
Eurofound (2010), Thyssenkrupp Tallent, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 70271, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70271.