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.
Private at-home health testing company LetsGetChecked is to create 160 jobs in Dublin where it is establishing the company’s first lab in Europe. The jobs include developers, engineers, laboratory roles, marketing, customer solutions and sales.
The company provides sexual health tests, men and women’s health and diagnostics for vitamin levels, thyroid function and cortisol levels.
It has been offering coronavirus tests to frontline workers in the US since May, and has shipped more than one million coronavirus tests since the beginning of the pandemic. The company announced recently that it would be making Covid-19 tests available to Irish customers.
Eurofound (2020), LetsGetChecked, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 102734, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102734.