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.
UK-owned clothing retailer Principles were recently placed in liquidation. Soon after Principles confirmed 216 staff were to lose their jobs. The company has been badly affected by the competitive difficulties facing its owner, Mosaic. Principles has seven stores and 25 concessions in department stores across Ireland.
Eurofound (2009), Principles Retail Ireland, Bankruptcy in Ireland, factsheet number 68528, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68528.