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.
East Midlands Trains, a train operating company, is to cut 160 jobs. The jobs are being cut as the economic downturn affects passenger numbers. No further data is available as to how many people the company will continue to employ when the jobs are cut across the region within the next month.
Eurofound (2009), East Midlands Trains, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68457, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68457.