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.
Rusch, a County Armagh company based in Lurgan which manufactures medical equipment said that it is cutting 270 jobs and relocating its production to Mexico and Malaysia. The company is part of the US firm Teleflex, which has headquarters in Pennsylvania. The jobs losses at Rusch are part of a global restructuring which will result in about 1,600 job losses worldwide.
Eurofound (2005), Rusch, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61029, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61029.