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.
Telecom company, Unicom, has announced the creation of 100 new jobs in its Manchester offices. The company specialises in providing telecommunications to small and medium sized enterprises, and the increase in jobs follows a good year for the company in 2014. In total the company currently employs 500 across the UK in 12 offices. The new jobs are understood to be in various divisions of the business including the sales, customer service, retention, contract processing and administration arms. The timeframe for filling the 100 jobs has not been specified.
Eurofound (2015), Unicom, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 78275, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78275.