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.
About 120 staff in telecommunications company Sigma Telecom have been laid off due to the winding up of the 3G mobile phone retailer. Sigma Telecom was both a creditor of, and a shareholder in, 3G. Ulster Bank appointed a receiver to Sigma Telecom at the company's invitation. There were initially hopes that the business, which supplied the 3G shops, but also mobile network operator, Meteor, could be saved. But Meteor, which was Sigma Telecom's main business apart from 3G, moved its supply contract to another company, RCI Radius.
Eurofound (2010), Sigma Telecom, Closure in Ireland, factsheet number 70422, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70422.