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.
Oil Company ConocoPhillips has announced plans to cut 450 jobs from its UK workforce. The plans are subject to the statutory consultation processes, though it is expected that the job losses will take place between October 2018 and April 2020. Aberdeen is the base for more than half of the company's 1,300 UK workforce, though at this stage the location of the job cuts has yet to be confirmed. Politicians and trade unions expressed some surprise at the announcement, given the recent predictions of a recovery in the oil sector.
Eurofound (2018), ConocoPhillips, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 94151, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/94151.