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.
Barclays, a British banking and financial services company, announced that it plans to cut 422 jobs in its technology and infrastructure division. Most of the job losses are reported to be in Radbrooke Hall, Cheshire, but there will be cuts in Northampton and at other sites around the country.
The union representing workers Unite said that it strongly opposed the company sending some of the work to Lithuania, an allegation that the company denied.
A timeline for the restructuring is not known yet.
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