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.
Gigasport, an Austrian sport products chain, has announced the cut of 280 jobs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Over 200 jobs will be lost with the closure of all 11 stores in the Czech Republic by the end of June 2012. The move is blamed on shrinking sales since 2010.
The company has been operating its Czech stores since 1997.
Eurofound (2012), Gigasport, Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 73279, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73279.