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.
Finnish household appliance chain Veikon Kone will close all its remaining 11 stores, with a loss of 100 jobs.
The owner of Veikon Kone, telecommunications company TeliaSonera, has tried to sell the chain for over a year but managed to sell only 5 stores. The company notes that the purchasing pattern for household appliances has increasingly moved from specialized stores to hypermarkets as well as online stores.
Eurofound (2012), Veikon Kone, Closure in Finland, factsheet number 73830, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73830.