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.
Gerber Juice Company is to cut 168 jobs in Somerset. The cuts are part of a wider restructuring of the factory. The company aims at avoiding compulsory redundancies, while agency employees are the ones likely to be most affected by the restructuring.
Eurofound (2012), Gerber Juice Company, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 72969, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72969.