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.
Burton's Foods has announced it is to cut 412 jobs. It plans to close its factory in Moreton on the Wirral and to make redundancies at its factory in Llantarnam, near Newport, south Wales. The organisation has also announced a £25m spending to improve productivity and competitiveness at the companies sites in Edinburgh and Llantarnam.
Eurofound (2011), Burton's Foods, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71505, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71505.