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.
Makro, a cash-and-carry store, is to close its site in Swansea with the loss of 112 jobs. The company attributed the decision to lower sales and a need to reduce costs. The current proposed closure date for the site is 31 May 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Makro Cash & Carry, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68170, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68170.