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.
Polestar Foods has announced plans to close its Okehampton plant in Devon and it has made 232 staff redundant with immediate effect. Production in the plant has already halted while the closure is blamed on the company's financial circumstances. The owner is considering appointing an administrator and looking for a buyer in the hope that some of the jobs are saved.
Eurofound (2011), Polestar Foods, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71573, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71573.