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.
IT support company Trusource Labs is to create 134 jobs in Limerick, as it sets up its new international base in Ireland. Trusource Labs specialises in support services for Apple devices. It employs 600 people in the USA, where it was set up. The job creation is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation through IDA Ireland. As of October 2016, no details are provided as to what type of jobs are being created but the company offers help desk services "as well as working with companies and their engineers when products are at beta stage."
Eurofound (2016), Trusource Labs, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 88803, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88803.