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 hospital group, Blackrock Health, is to create 1,000 new jobs in Ireland over the next five years. The jobs will be based at Blackrock Health centres - Blackrock, Galway, Hermitage and Limerick clinics. The jobs are as a result of an investment of €500 million in the private hospital group which will expand the inpatient bed capacity to nearly 500. Currently, 3,000 people are employed by the Blackrock Health and the private hospitals cared for more than 360,000 patients last year.
Eurofound (2024), Blackrock Health Group, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 201777, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201777.