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.
Doncaster Council has announced plans to cut 700 jobs by the end of this financial year in a bid to make large savings. It is claimed that compulsory redundancies will be considered only as a last resort. Unison the union is in the middle of a ballot for industrial action.
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