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.
Sphinx Tegels, a tile producer in the Netherlands, has been declared bankrupt with the immediate loss of 124 jobs. This was announced on the 6th November 2008. It is not clear yet whether it is possible to partially restart the company. The company was hit by adverse market circumstances and the credit crisis.
Eurofound (2008), Sphinx Tegels, Bankruptcy in Netherlands, factsheet number 67648, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67648.