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.
Mestdagh, a company operating in retail trade distribution, announced its intention to hire between 250 and 300 workers before the 1st October, in order to run the 16 stores that the group bought from Carrefour (see factsheet n.15992). Previously, 381 workers from Carrefour had already been transfered to Mestdagh.
Eurofound (2010), Mestdagh, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 71012, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71012.