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.
Building contractor BAM is in the process of recruiting 100 people to be employed on construction projects, both in Ireland and in locations such as Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Dutch-owned company, formerly known as Ascon, is engaged in a number of projects, including the A5 motorway between Derry and Monaghan, a development at the port in Aqaba, Jordan, and a stadium and hotel in Al Ain in the UAE. BAM is commencing a recruitment campaign to hire 100 people, including engineers, contracts managers and quantity surveyors, to work on these developments and on its Irish projects.
Eurofound (2012), BAM, Business expansion in World, factsheet number 74324, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74324.