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 Dickins and Jones store in Regent Street London is to close with the loss of 500 jobs. The House of Fraser which owns the store said that it needed to cut costs in the face of a steep downturn in consumer spending. The hope is that many of the staff can be redeployed in the group's other stores.
Eurofound (2005), Dickins and Jones, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61764, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61764.