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.
Retail giant Tesco has announced 140 voluntary redundancies at its Dublin head office as part of an internal restructuring exercise. It is reported that affected staff will be offered the opportunity of redeployment and retraining for roles elsewhere in Tesco, either in Ireland or elsewhere and that compulsory redundancies are not planned.
Eurofound (2009), Tesco Ireland, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 68901, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68901.