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.
Sausage manufacturer Freshlink has announced that it is to close with the loss of 145 jobs. The work from the factory is to be moved to a plant in Yorkshire to enhance the competitiveness of the organisation.
Whilst the Scottish government worked with the company on a different solution, they were unable to secure the future of the plant. As of yet, it is not clear when the company will cease its operations at the plant.
Eurofound (2012), Freshlink, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 74439, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74439.