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.
Bookmaker William Hill is to close 109 shops. The company has made the announcement in response to the government's recent hike in betting taxes paid of the so-called 'fixed odds' gambling terminals. The closure of these shops will put 420 employees at risk of redundancy. The company has said that, given the nature of its workforce, it expects that those hardest hit by these job losses will be female and young workers.
Eurofound (2014), William Hill, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76988, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76988.