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.
HomeServe, a household emergency insurance company is to cut 300 jobs across the UK. 162 jobs will go at its base in Walsall, 20 in Banbury and the rest in Preston. The job losses are blamed on declining numbers of customers and company efforts to maintain the competitiveness of the business.
Eurofound (2013), HomeServe, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 75194, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75194.