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 company De Poortere Frères, specialised in cord weaving for furniture, is bankrupt. Another company, SA Escolys has announced its decision to take the De Poortere Frères activities over and to invest 4 million euro in the company. However, out of the 300 workers employed in the company, 40 will be made redundant and 34 will receive early retirement.
Eurofound (2006), De Poortere Frères, Merger/Acquisition in Belgium, factsheet number 64441, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64441.