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 commercial court of Boulogne-sur-Mer has announced the liquidation of the French clothes manufacturer Artex which employs 164 people. They will all be laid off by October 2009.
Based in Arques, northern France, Artex was specialised in urgent replenishment orders for clothes retailers such as Promod, Camaieu, Pimkie and Etam.
Eurofound (2009), Artex, Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 69620, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69620.