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.
Three hundred jobs are to go at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospital Trust. The trust says it is conducting a spending review and is looking at staffing levels and intends to cut the posts from its 6,800-strong workforce. It is hoped the posts will go through natural staff turnover. The trust is one of the largest in England and provides acute care for a local population of 600,000.
Eurofound (2006), Hull and East Yorkshire Hospital Trust, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 62881, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62881.