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.
Fish-processing firm Icelandic Seachill ceases its production of ready meals at its 3 sites in Grimsby, where the company is to cut 250 jobs.
According to the company, this is due to a drop in consumer demand for ready meals.
The firm has started a 45-day consultation period over the job cuts.
Eurofound (2014), Icelandic Seachill, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76603, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76603.