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 medical devices multinational Merit Medical is to create 100 new jobs through an €6.7m investment in its Galway operation. The company plans to enter the European surgical pre-pack business having operated in Galway since 1994. It manufactures guidewires and inflation devices which are used in hospitals. It currently employs 250 people in Galway city.
Eurofound (2010), Merit Medical, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 70702, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70702.