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.
JJB Sports, a sportswear retailer, is to cut 438 staff as it closes 37 OSC stores and 8 Qube stores across the UK. The two chains had operated 77 stores with a total of 851 staff. The job cuts come as a result of lower sales in the current economic climate. As of 22 February 2009, no date has been confirmed for the closure of the stores.
Eurofound (2009), JJB Sports, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68296, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68296.