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.
The textile company Santens has experienced difficulties for some years and has now been declared bankrupt. The company has debts of about 7 million euro. In 2011, a bankruptcy was avoided thanks to a take-over by the French company Descamps and a loss of more than 250 jobs (see 2011 factsheet). However, the take-over was not successful.
Eurofound (2015), Santens, Bankruptcy in Belgium, factsheet number 79387, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79387.