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.
Construction firm UBC Group has closed due to insolvency with the loss of 240 jobs. Jobs were lost in Inverness (100), the Western Isles (90), Bathgate (45) and Glasgow (5).
Some 30 jobs could be saved in Inverness through a management buy-out concerning Wyvis Roofing, one part of the business.
Eurofound (2012), UBC Group, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73655, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73655.