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.
Barclays bank is to cut 109 to 165 jobs at its site in Cardiff. The bank will outsource its operations to a third-party supplier in Warwickshire. The job losses will take effect from Spring 2009 and will be implemented by September 2009. It is likely that a further 56 jobs will be lost at the bank's offices in North London.
Eurofound (2008), Barclays, Outsourcing in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67633, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67633.