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.
US-owned medical devices multinational Boston Scientific has announced up to 175 redundancies at its Galway plant. Boston Scientific Galway presently employs 3,000 staff, and 5,000 in total in Ireland. Many staff at the Galway site are employed in high-skill jobs.
Eurofound (2010), Boston Scientific, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 70170, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70170.