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.
Former state-owned Irish telecommunications company Eircom plans to implement 2,000 redundancies following its emergence from examinership. Eircom said it is reducing its workforce of 5,700 to 3,700 as part of broader restructuring programme to achieve cost-cutting measures and deliver what it terms greater operational efficiencies.
Eurofound (2012), Eircom, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 74458, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74458.