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.
Charity Sheffield Futures is to make one quarter of its staff redundant. The agency, which supports young people into work in Sheffield, is meeting with unions to discuss the situation. A reduction in a grant from the City Council has been blamed. Union Unison said it could not rule out industrial action at this stage. No time line was given as to when the cuts would be made by.
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