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.
Woodhead Bakery has made more than 100 staff redundant after going into administration on 7 June. Administrators were unable to find a buyer for the business and will therefore proceed with the closure. The firm faced similar problems in April 2011 when it went into administration but was saved from bankruptcy.
Eurofound (2012), Woodhead Bakery, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73821, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73821.