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.
Administrators at Britspace, an East Yorkshire building company, have announced 225 redundancies after failing to find a buyer for the firm. A small number of workers will keep their jobs to finish existing contracts. Staff were informed of the redundancies in a mass meeting.
Eurofound (2011), Britspace, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 72304, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72304.