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.
Oceanteam Power and Umbilical, an offshore services company, has ceasedĀ operationsĀ and its 150 employees in Aberdeen and Dundee have been made redundant. The closure came after the holding company withdrew its financial support. The firm is part of Oceanteam ASA which is headquartered in Norway and provides construction support vessels, burial and flexible lay equipment and geosciences services.
Eurofound (2009), Oceanteam Power and Umbilical, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68870, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68870.