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.
Approximately 150 workers have been told that they are to lose their jobs at American multinational food ingredients firm, ADM, based in County Cork. ADM makes citric acid for the soft drinks and food industry. The ADM managing director said the decision to cease manufacturing was due to intense competition in world citric acid markets in recent years. The company was facing intense competition from lower cost citric acid producers in China.
Eurofound (2005), ADM, Closure in Ireland, factsheet number 62239, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62239.