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.
Barclays Bank is to cut 188 jobs from its sites in Moorfields and Wavertree as a measure to improve efficiency. The cuts will affect staff working in the Individual Savings Accounts centres and they were blamed on low demand for services that were now offered online. The company is considering redemployement as a means to implement part of the losses.
Eurofound (2009), Barclays, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 69159, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69159.