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.
State-owned company Bus Éireann, which is part of the CIE public transport company, has announced 320 redundancies among its 2,700 workforce, and a reduction in its bus fleet of 150. The national bus company said the measures were necessary to restore its finances to break-even level by the end of 2010 due to what it described as 'a very challenging economic environment'. In addition, the internal restructuring plan incorporates a wage freeze up to the end of 2009 as well deferring payment of the terms of the Towards 2016 national wage agreement.
Eurofound (2009), Bus Eireann, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 67901, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67901.