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.
Delivery company Yodel has announced plans to cut 140 jobs in Wales. Jobs will be affected in Cardiff, Anglesey and Carmarthenshire. These plants will be closed within the first half of 2012.
The company was formed in 2010 through an acquisition process of DHL Domestic and the cuts are therefore blamed on duplication of services in some areas. The company stated that it aims to inform staff of their options.
Eurofound (2011), Yodel, Merger/Acquisition in United Kingdom, factsheet number 72775, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72775.