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.
Loan services operations, Wonga, plans to shut its Dublin office by mid-2016. The decision was reportedly taken so as to reduce the company's "high cost base". Wonga was forced to pay €3.5m out in compensation last year, after it issued fake legal letters.
Eurofound (2015), Wonga, Closure in Ireland, factsheet number 78555, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78555.