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.
McLeish brothers, a Scottish deli chain, have gone into administration. Seven of the ten stores owned by the company have been closed with immediate effect with the loss of 175 of the 205 jobs at the company. The firm went into administration when their bank, HBOS, withdrew their credit facility.
Eurofound (2009), McLeish Brothers, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67815, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67815.