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.
Retailer Tie Rack is to close its 44 UK stores with the possible dismissal of all 200 staff.
The initiative is the result of an ongoing decline in sales since 1998.
The firm is a subsidiary of Italian-based Fingen group. Tie Rack operated 450 stores within the UK at peak times.
Eurofound (2013), Tie Rack, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76212, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76212.