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.
More than 400 jobs are in jeopardy at the glassware company Edinburgh Crystal after it suffered substantial losses and failed to find a buyer.
The historic firm has staff at its head office in Penicuik, Midlothian, and at about 90 factory outlets and department stores across the UK. The administrators Deloitte have been called in and hope to sell the business as a going concern.
Eurofound (2006), Edinburgh Crystal, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 63827, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63827.