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.
Bookham Technology has announced the decision as part of its transfer of business to China. The decision means 150 jobs are to go at a fibre-optics plant in Paignton south Devon. The transfer from Paignton to China will take place over the next nine months. The 200 staff who will remain at the site will be focusing largely on research and development, the company said. In its heyday, when the plant was owned by Nortel Networks, almost 5,000 people were employed at the Paignton site. But by 2002, when Bookham Technology took over, 4,000 of those jobs had gone. In 2004, Bookham announced that it was shifting manufacturing to China and 600 jobs would go as a result.
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