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.
Stips TI, a demolition and wrecking of buildings company, has announced its bankruptcy with the loss of 240 jobs in Algrange (Moselle), Noyelles- Godault (Pas-de-Calais) and Vaux-en-Velin (Rhône). The company was declared in bankruptcy, resulting in the loss of 240 jobs in France. According to the trade unions, errors in management caused the bankruptcy. Stips TI was placed in compulsory administration in summer 2008 and consequently has to dismay the overall workforce.
Eurofound (2008), Stips TI, Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 67251, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67251.