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.
Kent Messenger Group, a media company, is to cut 159 jobs at sites across Kent. The company, which owns newspapers such as the Kent Messenger and Medway Messenger, as well as radio stations and websites, had already cut its staffing level from 640 to 550 in September 2008 as it attempts to reduce its costs. The company is aiming to make the cuts by April 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Kent Messenger Group, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68390, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68390.