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.
Mobile phone company EE has announced that it will create 250 jobs in Northern Ireland in the next few months.
The company is returning customer service roles from call centres in other countries to the UK. In total the company plans to bring 1,000 jobs back to the UK.
Updated, 11/06/2014: As reported EE announced the creation of 300 jobs. According to the sources the new jobs will be based in Webhelp.
Eurofound (2014), EE, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76657, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76657.