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 Forestry Commission has announced plans to cut 450 jobs. Some 350 staff are set to go in England and 100 at the commission's headquarters in Edinburgh. The cuts are part of government plans to privatise much of England's woodland.Ministers want to transfer power from the government-run Forestry Commission, which owns and runs 18% of England's woods, arguing that this will boost effective public control.
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