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.
Up to 125 jobs are set to be cut at Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust in a bid to save £8.5m in the next financial year - 5% of its budget. Managers have blamed government-imposed cuts, a reduction in treatment payments and changes to NHS financing. The Trust is accepting applications for voluntary redundancies while it has entered a consultation period with the unions.
Eurofound (2011), Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71753, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71753.