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.
Young's Seafood ha announced that it is to close former Cumbrian Seafoods plants in Seaham and Whitehaven with the loss of 281 jobs. The firm has been in consultation with staff since January. The company has said that production from this site will shift to other operations within the group.
Eurofound (2012), Youngs Seafood, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73691, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73691.