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.
An American medical devices multinational, Abiomed, is to create 250 new jobs over the next 18 months in a new plant in Athlone in the Irish Midlands.
The plant will manufacture a product for patients suffering acute heart failure. Abiomed is based in Massachusetts, and specialises in medical technologies designed to assist or replace the pumping of the heart.
Eurofound (2008), Abiomed, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 66979, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66979.