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.
UK House-builder Redrow has announced 550 job cuts as part of broad cost cutting measures including the closure of two of its offices. The job cuts reflect an industry wide downturn in business blamed on the credit crunch and a drop in the number of affordable mortgages. The company announced that the drop in sales was 'unprecedented'. As of July 2008, there is no information on when the job cuts will be implemented by.
Eurofound (2008), Redrow, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 66825, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66825.