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.
The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London has announced that it is to cut 450 jobs. It has already identified 280 posts to be removed from its structure. The hospital hopes that most posts will be lost through natural wastage. The job losses are part of the plan for the NHS in in north central London to make savings of £153.5m in this financial year.
Eurofound (2011), Royal Free Hospital, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 71847, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71847.