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.
Almost 200 workers lost their jobs with the closure of the Bord na Móna peat plant in Bellacorrick, Co Mayo. The closure had been heralded for four years, since the Electricity Supply Board decided to close its peat powered generating station beside the peat plant, in Bellacorrick.
Eurofound (2005), Bord na Mona, Closure in Ireland, factsheet number 61005, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61005.