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.
Dumfries-based construction firm R&D Construction has announced that it is to make 205 people redundant as the company called in administrators Ernst & Young. The remainder of the workforce is being retained on a short-term basis. Initial concerns about the firm's future emerged a week ago when wage payments were delayed, staff were told not to report to work on Monday 4th April.
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