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.
North Lincolnshire Council has announced that it is to cut 550 posts in an attempt to address a 10% cut in its budget requiring £15m of savings to be made next year as a result of government funding cuts. Included in the cuts is a reduction in its senior management team from 12 posts to 7 saving a total of £380,000. The council has already cut 200 posts in the last year bringing the total job cuts to 750.
Eurofound (2011), North Lincolnshire Council, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71650, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71650.