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.
Irish waste management company Beauparc is to create 300 new jobs in Ireland over the next four years.
Beauparc was established over 30 years ago and is the parent company of waste companies Panda, Greenstar and Irish Packing Recycling. Currently, the company has 3,000 employees in Ireland, Britain and the Netherlands.
The new jobs are part of a major capital expenditure and investment programme which will result in 500 new jobs across the group, with 300 of these based in Ireland.
Eurofound (2024), Beauparc, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 201898, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201898.