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.
H and L Garages has gone into administration making 176 employees redundant in East Yorkshire. The cuts affect the vast majority of H and L Garages 194 employees in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
The cuts were blamed on the adverse economic climate and difficult trading conditions. The administrators are now seeking a buyer for the company assets.
H and L Garages is a dealer and servicer of vans and lorries by Mercedes Benz.
Eurofound (2011), H and L Garages, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 72832, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72832.