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.
US oil company, ConocoPhilips, has announced that it will cut 230 jobs across the United Kingdom after a review of its UK operations. The jobs will be cut by March 2015. The job cuts will come from the company’s head office located in Scotland and also from offshore oil fields located in the North Sea between Scotland and Norway. The cuts are aimed at improving its UK cost structure. ConocoPhilips is a Houston-based independent oil company. The company’s UK business is separate from its Norwegian business.
Eurofound (2015), ConocoPhilips, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 78142, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78142.