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.
Engineering company, LMC Group, announced that it will expand its workforce in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, by 200 people over the next three years. LMC Group manufactures modular housing. The jobs expansion comes as LMC takes over the former Procter & Gamble site in Nenagh, which closed two years ago. LMC plans to move away from building modular rooms to 'full turn-key housing solutions' over next 12 months at the former Procter & Gamble facility.
Eurofound (2019), LMC Group, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 98134, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98134.