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.
Steel mill Thamesteel has announced that it is to make around 350 workers redundant after the firm went into administration. The firm was one of the largest employers on the Isle of Sheppey, with a workforce of 400.
Administrators announced that 50 workers would be retained to keep the plant in working order while they sought a buyer.
Eurofound (2012), Thamesteel, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73028, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73028.