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.
Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest investment bank in the US, has filed for bankruptcy and administrators have announced that they are to cut 750 jobs with immediate effect. They have announced that the vast majority of the cuts will be made in London, where the firm employed about 5,000 people.
Eurofound (2008), Lehman Brothers, Bankruptcy in European Union, factsheet number 67193, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67193.