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.
Bendicks, a producer of chocolate products, plans to move operations from its Winchester factory to Germany with the loss of 140 jobs. The sales and marketing departments would be unaffected, according to the company.The firm has recently announced the start of a consultation period with the employees and unions.
Eurofound (2011), Bendicks, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71732, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71732.