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.
Meta, the US-based parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, will cut around 320 jobs at Meta's Irish operation. It is understood the redundancies will impact a number of teams including finance, sales, marketing, analytics, operations and engineering. This cuts will be part of a global restructuring plan which will cut 10,000 jobs from its workforce (Meta-2022-WO).
The company employed around 2,800 people in Ireland prior to the redundancies. Meta will continue to base its international headquarters in Ireland.
Eurofound (2022), Meta , Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 109143, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/109143.