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.
The B3 Cable Solutions plant located in Longford, in the Irish Midlands, is to close, with all 106 workers losing their jobs. The cable company, which manufactured copper cable for telecommunications company Eircom and other customers, had gone into receivership. The receiver has been unable to sell the company as a going concern and so the plant has had to go into liquidation and close.
Eurofound (2010), B3 Cable Solutions, Bankruptcy in Ireland, factsheet number 70701, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70701.