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.
On 21 January 2014 jewelery chain Siebel was declared bankrupt. All 36 shops were closed and 170 jobs will be lost, unless there is a takeover of all or part of the stores. The background is a dramatic loss of turnover due to customers spending far less than before the crisis.
Eurofound (2014), Siebel, Bankruptcy in Netherlands, factsheet number 76529, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76529.