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 furniture, home textiles and kitchen appliance retailer DeBorla will open four new stores in 2019 (two of those in Lisbon and Porto) and will recruit 100 workers. The DeBorla group has 33 stores in Portugal and employs 500 workers. The management is anticipating a rise of the turnover by 15% in 2018 against the EUR 51mn recorded in 2017.
Eurofound (2018), DeBorla, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 95712, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95712.