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 shipping company Stena has announced that it is stopping sailings on a Lancashire to Northern Ireland route at the end of the year. The lines closure will result in the loss of 140 jobs. The company said it had not option other than to close the line as it was making a serious loss despite cost saving measures already having been taken.
Eurofound (2010), Stena Line, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71260, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71260.