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.
Quinton Hazell, a car parts manufacturing company, has gone into administration resulting in the loss of 196 jobs at two factories in Conwy and Lancashire. Administrators blamed the closure on the "prolonged, challenging trading conditions". A small number of staff will remain in order to help with the closure.
Eurofound (2013), Quinton Hazell, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 75017, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75017.