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.
Gallagher's, a bread bakery based in Donegal, has announced 124 redundancies. The company informed workers that deteriorating trading conditions in Ireland and the UK meant an end to the company's frozen-food production line. Workers were told that it was hoped 40 of the 189 jobs could be saved as negotiations were under way with a prospective buyer to save Gallagher's local fresh bread business.
Eurofound (2011), Gallagher's Bakery, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 71555, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71555.