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.
Food manufacturer Heinz expects to cut between 800 and 1,000 jobs worldwide with the closure of two factories in Europe, two in the USA and one in the Pacific region. The exact locations of the European plants that will be closed are not yet known.
Eurofound (2011), Heinz, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 72026, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72026.