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 producer of turbine blades, has announced plans to cut 200 about jobs in Exeter. The cuts are blamed on falling demand. The union Unite said it would suggest pay cuts or short-time working to try and avoid as many cuts as possible. As of May 2010, no date has been announced for the implementation of the cuts.
Eurofound (2010), Alcoa Howmet, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 70595, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70595.