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.
Budget DIY, which has six stores across Northern Ireland, has gone into administration and up to 200 jobs are at risk. The company supplied value home improvement products.
The news was broken to staff on 24 November 2006, late in the afternoon. The administrators are expected to make a statement on the future of the stores on Monday, 27 November 2006.
Eurofound (2006), Budget DIY, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64503, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64503.