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.
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Private provider of probation services Sodexo has announced plans to cut 700 jobs over the next twelve months.
The job cuts are understood to be part of a cost-cutting measure which will allow offenders to report in using a cash-machine kiosk, rather than reporting to a probation officer. It is understood that the majority of redundancies will occur from September and will be on a compulsory basis. Sodexo has said that it will not honour a voluntary redundancy scheme which was agreed between the Justice Secretary and the unions at the time of the privatisation in February. Given the numbers which are involved in the redundancies a formal consultation will take place.
The company operates 6 of the 21 newly privatised community rehabilitation companies in England and Wales.
Eurofound (2015), Sodexo, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 79217, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79217.