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.
Supermarket chain Asda has announced that it is to cut 200 jobs. 150 jobs will be lost at the head office in Leeds and 50 at the Lutterworth offices of its George fashion business.
The redundancies are designed to remove duplication in the business and to make efficiency savings to enable more effective competition.
Eurofound (2014), Asda, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76773, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76773.