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.
Online accommodation rental service Airbnb is to double its workforce in Dublin with a further 100 roles to be filled by end of 2014. The new roles will be in customer service and hospitality functions.
The company's expansion in Ireland was welcomed by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation and the IDA.
Airbnb, with its headquarters in San Francisco, connects people seeking or offering accommodation across 34,000 cities worldwide.
Eurofound (2014), Airbnb, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 76805, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76805.