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.
Supermercati uniti nazionali (Sun), an Italian company operating in the retail sector, is to create 435 jobs in 2013. The job creation is due to the merger with CE.DI.GROS., a consortium of retailers. The acquisition is aimed at integrating commercial and logistic support on the Tyrrhenian coast. Sun employs around 7,550 people in Italy.
Eurofound (2012), Sun, Merger/Acquisition in Italy, factsheet number 74715, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74715.