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 Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust has announced that it will cut 350 jobs in a bid to cut £15m a year for the next 3 years. The trust announced that current plans would only equate to a £5m a year saving. Chief executive Karen Jackson said 'Where possible we will try to ensure that any job losses are voluntary'.
Eurofound (2010), Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71259, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71259.