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.
Stylo, a retailer who owns the Barrat and PriceLess shoe retail chains, is to close 220 stores with the loss of 2,500 jobs. The company, which operated a total of 545 stores and employed 5,500 people, went into administration in January. 325 stores have been sold on which will retain 3,000 jobs. The remaining stores will be closed by the end of February 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Stylo, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68295, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68295.