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.
Wirral Council has announced that it is to cut 1,100 jobs within the next four months. It blamed the move on a budget cut of £40m. The council has indicated that the redundancies will be voluntary and that additional money would be invested in Sure Start and library services.
Eurofound (2011), Wirral Council, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71654, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71654.