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.
Department store Allders will close down by the end of September 2012 resulting in the loss of up to 850 jobs in Croydon, UK.
The store was placed into administration in June 2012. According to the store's administrators, the closure of the business came after the last potential buyer withdrew from negotiations.
Eurofound (2012), Allders, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 74142, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74142.