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.
Building contractor MJN Colston in Thornaby has gone into administration making 148 employees redundant. The bankruptcy is blamed on a decline in business activities.
The administrators are currently seeking a buyer for the business and its assets.
Eurofound (2012), MJN Colston, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73162, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73162.