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.
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Clothing and baby goods retailer Mothercare has announced plans to close 111 stores across the UK resulting in the loss of 730 jobs. The closures are blamed on a 9.5% fall in sales. The move is a part of a wider cost cutting program which includes reductions of UK head office payroll costs.
Eurofound (2012), Mothercare, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 73480, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73480.