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.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer recently announced that it is to expand its Dublin plant, with 200 extra jobs to be created over the next five years. The Dublin plant currently employs about 150 people and produces a number of products, including an antibiotic, a breast cancer drug and a treatment for yeast infection.
Eurofound (2004), Pfizer, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 60524, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60524.