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.
On 11 March 2006, furnishing department store IKEA announced that it will close its branch in Sliedrecht. According to the board, this branch is too small for the IKEA concept. The location is not good enough to enlarge or replace the building. IKEA intends to relocate its 190 employees to other branches.
Eurofound (2006), IKEA, Closure in Netherlands, factsheet number 63432, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63432.