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.
London Underground is to cut up to 800 jobs under plans to make savings of £16m a year. The cuts will include 100 managers, 450 ticket office posts and up to 200 other jobs. The company said it had completely ruled out compulsory redundancies and would look at re-deploying staff. The redundancies are blamed on the increasing use of the pre-paid Oyster card, and a "sharp decline" in tickets sold at station ticket offices in recent years.
Eurofound (2010), London Underground, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 70291, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70291.