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.
Low-cost travel agent Budget Travel has announced 95 redundancies out of a total labour force of 266. The redundancies will mean that the company plans to close 14 of its 31 shops across Ireland. The company has attributed the redundancies to a 30 per cent-plus drop in the number of package holidays booked recently. Budget Travel intends cutting 75 staff across its Irish retail network plus an additional 20 from its head office.
Eurofound (2009), Budget Travel, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 69438, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69438.