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.
Corus, a large steel producer, is to cut 3,500 jobs worldwide. The jobs were blamed on steep falls in demand from different industries including carmaking, shipbuilding, construction and heavy engineering. The company committed to make every effort to implement the job losses through voluntary redundancies. Corus belongs to Tata Steel and employs 42,000 staff worldwide. As of January 2009, there is no information on when the job losses will occur.
Eurofound (2009), Corus, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 68023, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68023.