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.
Clothing and baby goods retailer Mothercare has announced plans to close 111 stores across the UK resulting in the loss of 730 jobs. The closures are blamed on a 9.5% fall in sales. The move is a part of a wider cost cutting program which includes reductions of UK head office payroll costs.
Eurofound (2012), Mothercare, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73480, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73480.