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.
Teesside company Cleveland Potash Limited has secured a government grant to support the mining of Polyhalite at its Boulby site. Polyhalite is then used for fertiliser manufacture. The company believes that the grant will secure the long-term future of polyhalite mining at this site and will create an additional 125 jobs directly as well as approximately 265 jobs indirectly.
Eurofound (2014), Cleveland Potash Limited, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76967, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76967.