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.
American-owned restaurant chain, TGI Friday's, has announced plans to open 16 new restaurants creating 700 new jobs. Six of the new sites will open during 2015, with the remaining ten to open during 2016. It is understood that the move will create a range of full-time and part-time positions in all aspects of the business, including approximately 100 management positions. The locations of the new sites have not yet been announced. The addition of the new restaurants will mean that the chain increases to 70 sites in the UK by the end of 2015 and 80 by the end of 2016.
Eurofound (2015), TGI Fridays, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 78698, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78698.