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.
Channel 5, a television broadcaster, is to cut around a quarter of its workforce. The London-based company, which employs 354 people, is to cut 87 staff as it attempts to reduce costs to meet its falling advertising revenue. As of 8 March 2009 no details have been released as to when these jobs will be cut.
Eurofound (2009), Channel 5, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68444, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68444.