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.
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270 workers are to lose their jobs with the closure of the 170-year-old spinning mill operated by Herdman's in Sion Mills, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The company recently opened a plant in South Africa and it is expected production will be transferred there.
Eurofound (2004), Herdman's, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60077, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60077.