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.
On 16 May 2010 temporary recruitment agency Pool announced it had filed for partial bankruptcy, with a potential loss of 350 jobs. A few days later it became clear that several parties were interested in taking over part of the activities - as a result 250 out of a total of 350 employees retained their jobs.
Eurofound (2010), Pool, Bankruptcy in Netherlands, factsheet number 70630, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70630.