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.
The Harte Group, a civil engineering group, has entered into administration resulting in the loss of 500 jobs. All 720 employees have been made redundant but 200 of them will be reemployed in order to deal with pending orders.The bankruptcy was blamed on the economic downturn of the building industry and on financially-troubled clients.
Eurofound (2012), WJ Harte, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 72970, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72970.