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.
Diageo the UK owner of Guinness announced that 250 jobs are lost in 3 Guinness breweries of Dundalk, Kilkenny and Dublin. Diageo’s brewing staff has been cut by more than half. It is expected that new jobs will be created when a €650 million investment in and construction of upgraded and new breweries will be completed in 2013.
Eurofound (2008), Guinness, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 66613, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66613.