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.
Wincanton, a logistics firm, is to cut 865 jobs at sites in Gloucester and Manchester. The job cuts are a result of the firm’s joint venture with Culina Logistics. The company employs 30,000 people across the UK, but as of 18 January 2009 has not announced when these jobs will be cut.
Eurofound (2009), Wincanton, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67824, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67824.