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.
Passion for Perfume, a retailer, has closed with the loss of 185 jobs at its stores across the UK. The company had been affected by the reduction in consumer spending, and closed its 45 stores with the loss of all jobs onĀ 6 January 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Passion for Perfume, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67777, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67777.