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 healthcare equipment supplier Homecare Medical Supplies is to cut 80 jobs. Fifty of the job losses are in the service centre in Kiltimagh, Co Mayo; another 15 are to go in Ballyhaunis, with a further 15 losses in Clonee, Co Meath.
As reported, the company has lost a HSE contract involving the supply of health care equipment, disposable and daily living and mobile aids.
Talks are being conducted at present with the 80 affected staff.
Eurofound (2013), Homecare Medical Supplies, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 76138, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76138.