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.
Bombardier has announced that it is to cut 983 contractors and 446 permanent staff from its plant in Derby. The plant currently employs around 3,000 workers. The cuts follow the UK government awarding the contract to build Thames Link trains to a competitor.
Eurofound (2011), Bombardier, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 72481, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72481.