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.
Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok is to create 1,000 jobs in Ireland. The company has been operating in Ireland since 2019 and the new roles will add to the 2,000 staff already employed here. Recruitment will start soon. Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar welcomed the news. The latest jobs announcement follows agreement reached by the company in recent months to rent two new sites in Dublin.
Tik Tok recently announced it would be opening a European data centre in Dublin next year.
Eurofound (2022), TikTok, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 107018, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107018.