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.
The British bank Barclays is dismissing 285 of the 1,100 employees currently working in the strategic centre for technologies and services in Lithuania (Vilnius). The company is reconsidering its activity worldwide, and will relocate 244 of the 285 jobs in UK and other non-EU countries.
Eurofound (2018), Barclays, Reshoring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71.