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.
Flectronics is a Singapore-base firm. Limerich plant employs 400 staff. 250 staff will lose their job and 150 staff will be retained within the regions at its existing Cork facility.
In march 2002, the company cut 370 jobs at the plant in Tullamore (Ireland) and moved its operation to Asia.
Eurofound (2002), Flextronics, Relocation in Ireland, factsheet number 59647, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59647.