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.
Human rights charity Amnesty International has announced plans to cut nearly one hundred jobs. The charity has a staff of approximately 650 staff and is proposing around 95 redundancies. The charity had faced criticism for its working practices after the suicides of two of its employees amid allegations of a toxic workplace culture.
The decision to cut jobs is a result of an overspend by the organisation's senior management team, according to the Unite trade union. The cuts are subject to a three month consultation period, and it is expected that the losses will take place in October 2019.
Eurofound (2019), Amnesty International, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 97915, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97915.