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.
The Home Office is reported to be hiring 140 new workers at its site in Bootle, Merseyside. The vacancies are for roles in the UK Visas & Immigration Directorate processing asylum seeker applications and will pay between GBP 23,000 and GBP 26,000 (€ 27,340 and € 30,900) per annum based on a 37 hour working week. The jobs are being advertised on fixed term contracts of 12 or 18 months. It is not being reported when the jobs will be filled, though there will be a training course for successful applicants in June 2017.
Eurofound (2017), The Home Office, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 90857, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90857.