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.
Multinational fast food chain McDonald's is to expand in Ireland, and is to create 250 new jobs in four new sites by the end of 2010. It is reported that three quarters of the new posts will be full-time, and three of the new sites will be in Dublin. McDonald's has 78 existing restaurants in Ireland and the new jobs will increase the number of employees up to 3,850.
Eurofound (2010), McDonalds, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 70254, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70254.