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.
Lloyds Banking group has provided further details of its large restructure, which includes the creation of 170 new jobs. In 2015 it announced plans to cut 9,000 jobs across branches in the UK. The latest announcement contains details of branch closures and job cuts which form part of the 9,000 figure, but also includes new details of jobs which will be added. The company will create the new jobs in retail and commercial banking and in its legal team. It is not known when these new jobs will be filled.
Eurofound (2016), lloyds banking group, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 86456, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86456.