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.
ECI, the book club, announced on 3 February 2011 that it will close all of its shops and hence dismiss 100 employees. Due to the ever decreasing number of members and the expensive cost of ECI stores, the company is focussing on a new strategy: online sale. From 1 June 2011 on, ECI will only have an online store.
Eurofound (2011), ECI, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 72118, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72118.