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.
Barts and The London NHS Trust has announced that it is to cut 635 jobs over the next two years in an attempt to reduce costs. The trust expects to make 200 compulsory redundncies, but hopes that the remainder will be lost through natural wastage and voluntary redundancy. Around 100 beds are to be lost, 260 nursing staff, 83 fewer clinical and diagnostic posts, 220 fewer administration and clerical posts and 72 fewer corporate roles. The job cuts are expected to generate savings of around £30m.
Eurofound (2011), Barts and The London NHS Trust, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71826, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71826.