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.
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has announced that it plans to cut 700 jobs from its UK workforce by 2016 as part of global restructuring plans (see AstraZeneca-WO2013). The company intends to relocate staff from the Alderly Edge and London sites to a new facility in Cambridge. There are also plans to relocate 300 roles outside the UK.
Eurofound (2013), Astra Zeneca, Relocation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 75204, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75204.