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.
Starman Brussels, the tenant of the building of the well-known 5-stars hotel Le Méridien, has gone into liquidation. As a consequence, the hotel has been closed immediately. The 140 employees are collectively dismissed. As reported the bankruptcy is due to a long-lasting conflict on arrears of rent.
Eurofound (2014), Starman Bruxelles, Bankruptcy in Belgium, factsheet number 77156, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77156.