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.
As many as 225 jobs are reported to have been lost following the liquidation of Cork-based timber supplier, Brooks Haughton. The firm, which has locations around Ireland, was reported not to be financially viable, leading to its closure.
Brooks Haughton has been operating in Cork for over 200 years.
Eurofound (2012), Brooks Haughton, Bankruptcy in Ireland, factsheet number 73587, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73587.