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.
Supermarket chain, SuperValu, is to add 190 jobs to its workforce in 2017. The jobs expansion is through a €35 million investment and the opening of three new stores.
SuperValu, owned by the Musgrave group, employs 14,500 people across 219 stores in Ireland. The supermarket chain's sales were up 2.4% in 2016.
Eurofound (2017), SuperValu, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 90348, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90348.