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.
Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge has announced plans to cut 170 nursing jobs as part of attempts to find savings of up to £40 over the next three years. The proposal foresees that the cuts are going to be implemented by natural wastage from staff turnover. The hospital has already imposed a recruitment freeze. A scrutiny committee set up by Cambridgeshire County Council plans to investigate the reasons for the cuts and what alternatives have been considered.
Eurofound (2010), Addenbrooke's Hospital, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 70683, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70683.