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.
Mobile phone operator Vodafone is planning to cut 100 jobs at its Dublin headquarters. The company is reported to be requesting voluntary redundancies. As it was announced on 29 January 2007, Vodafone has informed its employees that the cuts respond to an increasingly competitive Irish mobile phone market. Vodafone employs 1,800 people in Dublin, Dundalk and its retail outlets. Of this, 1,335 are direct employees based at the Dublin HQ.
Eurofound (2007), Vodafone, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 64861, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64861.