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.
The UK arm of the 154-year-old Courts furniture chain is to be put into the hands of administrators after its banks called in loans.
The banks, which are owed £280m, are expected to appoint accountants KPMG to run the struggling British operation, presumably with a view to trying to sell it off or break it up before resorting to closure of its 89 UK stores and the possible loss of 1,400 jobs.
Eurofound (2004), Courts, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60778, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60778.