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.
Irish airline Aer Lingus has announced 100 voluntary redundancies by the end of 2013. The job cuts are part of a cost cutting plan. Over the course of recent years, the company has undertaken successive restructuring programmes and extensive redundancies in the face of intense competition in the airline industry (see Aer Lingus-2009, Aer Lingus-2008a, Aer Lingus-2008b, Aer Lingus-2004, Aer Lingus-2002).
Eurofound (2013), Aer Lingus, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 75312, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75312.