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.
Following continuos financial troubles, PD Consulting (the then interim managing firm of Rainbow Kft, operator of Alexandra bookstore chain) decided to close down all of the company's 56 stores. 362 jobs will be lost. 29 of those stores will be reopened and operated by various publishing houses. Around half of 362 employees are likely to be re-hired by the new store operators.
Eurofound (2017), Rainbow, Closure in Hungary, factsheet number 90505, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90505.