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.
Furniture company Dams International has been placed in administration and 245 jobs are to be lost across the UK. The company blamed a significant fall in turnover as a result of the economic crisis. Whilst the firm engaged in earlier restructuring it was unable to manage its cash flow which resulted in administrators being appointed. No date has been offered for the job losses.
Eurofound (2009), Dams International, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 69635, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69635.