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.
Fly Me Sweden, a Swedish low fare airline, has filed for bankruptcy. The District Court of Gothenburg declared the company bankrupt on Friday 2 March 2007. Fly Me made a loss of 268.5 million SEK in 2006 and 173 million SEK in 2005. After the bank had frozen the ticket payments, on 2 March the board of Fly Me Sweden decided with immediate effect to stop ticket sales and suspend all flights. The company’s 250 employees have lost their jobs as a consequence of the bankruptcy.
Eurofound (2007), Fly Me Sweden, Bankruptcy in Sweden, factsheet number 65130, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65130.