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.
Vergo Retail Ltd, owner of department stores such as Robbs of Hexham and Joplings in Sunderland, has gone into administration with the loss of 335 jobs. Nine stores across England will close in 4 weeks time, according to the administrators MCR, unless they manage to find a buyer.
Eurofound (2010), Robbs of Hexham and Joplings in Sunderland, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 70554, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70554.