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.
Premier Foods has announced plans to cut 900 jobs from its bread division in the UK and to close two bakeries in west London and Birmingham next year. The cuts are part of wider plans to restructure the company's logistics and to cut its debts of more than £1bn.The restructuring also follows the loss of a contract with a supermarket to produce bread, worth £75m.
The unions claimed that these “job losses were devastating”.
Eurofound (2012), Premier Foods, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 74581, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74581.