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.
Comet, an electrical retailer, is to cut 280 jobs across the UK. Four of the company's service centres will be closed. The affected units are Stockport, Barnsley, Bridgend and Broxburn in West Lothian. The company employs 10,000 people across the UK, with around 1,600 of these operating in service centres and the head office. As of 8 March 2009 no date has been set for these closures.
Eurofound (2009), Comet, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68447, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68447.