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.
IT services company 2e2 has gone into administration with the loss of 977 jobs. The redundancies were implemented in two waves of 350 and 627 people.
Administrators had hoped to sell the business as a going concern but have been unable to. It is reported that staff were informed by a conference call that they had lost their jobs.
Eurofound (2013), 200, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 74899, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74899.