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.
Co-operative Banking Group, a UK-headquartered banking and insurance company, has announced it is to cut 187 jobs. Around 130 will be lost in Leek (Staffordshire), 53 in Manchester, and 4 in Skelmersdale (Lancashire). A timeline for the restructuring is not yet known.
The company is in talks with the trade unions and has said that it hopes to offer staff redeployment.
Eurofound (2012), Co-operative Banking Group, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73224, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73224.