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.
Retail chain Ethel Austin has announced that it has closed and made all 215 staff redundant. The troubled retailer went into administration in 2008, 2010 and 2011. The current owner had bought the chain out of administration only in 2012.
Whilst some stores were saved on previous occasions, the administrator has confirmed that all remaining stores will now close.
Eurofound (2013), Ethel Austin, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 74827, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74827.