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.
Information Technology company Allscripts is to create 100 new jobs. The company which specialises in providing computer systems which are primarily used in the healthcare sector has announced that it is to create its European headquarters in Manchester.
Clients for the company include the NHS who has purchased systems for electronic records keeping. It is not known when recruitment for these new positions will start, but it is expected that all of these new positions will be filled over two or three years. There will be various positions to fill including those relating to software development and design, sales and project management.
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