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.
University Hospital North Staffordshire (UHNS) has announced plans to cut 400 jobs in the next financial year as part of wider measures aimed at making £22m of savings. The job cuts are blamed on an estimated underlying deficit of £41m in 2013-14. According to UHNS, the cuts would be implemented mostly by reducing the number of agency staff and eliminating vacant posts.
Eurofound (2013), University Hospital North Staffordshire, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 75344, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75344.