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.
Powys Council plans to make 500 employees redundant in a bid to achieve savings of £16 over the next four years. The cuts are blamed on reduced government funding and growing economic pressures. The cutbacks are most likely to be met by natural wastage, including retirements and not filling vacancies. However, compulsory redundancies have not been ruled out.
Eurofound (2010), Powys Council, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 70709, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70709.