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.
Pennon, the water and waste recycling group, said it would not contest Ofwat's (the industry regulator) decision to cap its price increase for South West Water customers at 25% above the rate of inflation for the next five years. But it announced that about 100 jobs will have to go as part of its drive to meet the demands placed on it by the industry regulator's review.
Eurofound (2004), Pennon, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60867, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60867.