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.

Drinks manufacturer Diageo Ireland, which owns Guinness, announced plans in June 2009 to cut 107 jobs over the following three months. The company attributed the job cuts to a global restructuring programme aimed at cutting costs in the context of the global economic downturn. The plan - which will cut more than 5% of the company's Irish workforce of 2,000 - was to take effect over the next three months across a number of areas, including support functions, sales and marketing. The company added that the restructring was required to maintain a sustainable and competitive business in Ireland.
Eurofound (2009), Diageo Ireland, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 69928, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69928.