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.
Apollo 2000, a retailer of electrical appliances which has gone into administration, is to cut up to 180 jobs. Administrators announced that all 12 company stores will close and the majority of the staff will be made redundant. As of 22 March 2009 there is no information on when the job losses will occur.
Eurofound (2009), Apollo 2000, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68533, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68533.