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.
Snacks food manufacturer Largo Foods has announced 123 redundancies at its plant in Gweedore, Co. Donegal. The company is relocating part of its production to its more automated site in Ashbourne, County Meath to cut costs. The redundancies will commence by the end of August 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Largo Foods, Relocation in Ireland, factsheet number 68673, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68673.