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.
Menzies Hotel group will make 155 staff redundant in Gatwick, Luton and Swindon following the buyout of the group by the Topland Group. 49 of the affected jobs will go in Swindon and the rest in Gatwick and Luton.
The buyout secured the future of 12 other sites. Administrators stated that the three hotels were "unattractive to potential buyers" and that they would close by 2 December 2013.
Menzies group is based in Derbyshire.
Eurofound (2013), Menzies Hotel, Merger/Acquisition in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76271, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76271.