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.
Supermarket chain Morrisons has announced plans to create 7,000 new jobs in 2012 in order to staff 25 new outlets. Some 300 jobs will be created in a new distribution centre. Half the jobs will go to unemployed people.
The chain had a 4.6% rise in sales in the three months leading to October 2011.
Eurofound (2011), Morrisons, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73294, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73294.