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.
Faccenda, a company that operates in the food manufacturing sector, has closed its factory in Sutton Benger near Chippenham in Wiltshire. The factory produced chicken products and all 380 staff lost their jobs on Friday 12 September 2008. The company attributed the closure to rising costs of fuel and chicken feed.
Eurofound (2008), Faccenda, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67083, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67083.