Hades Ethics Consultancy

For today's Ethics Q&A we share a business idea from a pair of business associates:

Recently my associate and I have noticed an uptick in job postings that require a specific certificate to apply for the job, like an AWS cert, or a medical license, that kind of stuff …

Steve, a devoted reader of the Hades Ethics Consultancy blog, wrote in to share his ethical concern:

Well, my Hades, I seem to have trapped myself in a proper fix this time. You see, it is as follows. I have a very dear colleague, and let us call her Susan …

Therese Bottomly, a newspaper editor, recently reached out to HEC via the newspaper The Guardian to ask an important ethical question that our experts are qualified to answer:

The Portland-based Oregonian once had community reporters in bureaus in surrounding suburbs who would cover hyperlocal news, including very trivial offenses, said …

An anonymous reader writes with a tricky “ethical dimension” inspired by the movie It Ends With Us:

Hello there Hades. I wanted to reach out about a movie I saw this weekend its called It Ends With Us released 2024 by Columbia Pictures and Wayfarer Studios. This was a really …

Jordan from Atlantic County, NJ, writes with a “million dollar question”—well, more of a enterprise than a question:

A buddy and I have a startup idea that we wanted to run by you. Essentially, think “Tinder for payroll management.” It’s an app that plugs into your existing corporate …

Our wide-angle view of today’s hottest ethical issues has shown us there’s a real supply/demand mismatch of ethical talent on the market today. That’s why we are launching HEC Cornerstone—a certification course specially designed for advisors, executives, politicians, and the ethically curious to gain professional …

Thanks to “Gorgonzola from Goa” for the following imaginative ethical stumper:

Morning HEC, was wondering what thoughts you have on the ethics of jamming along to hold music? I know you’re supposed to think hold music is annoying, but some of the lo-fi beats they’ve been putting out …

Hades Ethics Consultancy proudly presents our ranking of 2024’s most ethical homeowner’s associations!

Homeowner’s associations—or HOAs for short—truly run the gamut from upstanding organizations that advocate for the needs of their members, to predatory and discriminatory HOAs that actual stifle homeowners and prevent them from …

Amanda in Portland, ME, writes:

I noticed on your website it says you have experience in something called “domestic ethics.” What's that?

Thank you for your question, Amanda!

For as long as humans have been domestic, there have been ethics. In fact, questions of the proper way to manage a …

An anonymous reader writes:

Hey Hades, what do you think about the ethics of street racing? I have been looking for ways to spice up my commute and recently learned that it’s quite popular in my town. But I’m concerned about the possible risks and legal consequences. Care …

Here at HEC, we believe that every man, woman, and bookstore is entitled to a fair trial before a jury of their peers, and let’s just say: The jury is in with our ranking of 2023’s least ethical bookstores.

For this year’s ranking, we leveraged a “secret …