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.
Building and development company Watkin Jones has announced that it is to create between 100 and 200 jobs in 2014. Furthermore, the company is to employ a large number of additional sub-contractors.
The company reports creating 100 jobs in the last year, and anticipates that at least the same number will be created over the coming 12 months. The company specialises in building student accommodation.
Eurofound (2014), Watkin Jones, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76572, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76572.