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.
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One of Ireland's largest pharmaceutical employers, Pfizer, is to close one of its Cork-based plants, resulting in 180 redundancies, after it could not attract a buyer for the facility. A planned sale of the facility had fallen through following negotiations with an interested party. The closure is due to take place on a phased basis before the end of 2009.
Eurofound (2008), Pfizer, Closure in Ireland, factsheet number 66978, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66978.