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.
German supermarket and discounter chain Lidl has opened its 13th distribution centre in Piorunów near Błonie, creating 200 new jobs.
Warehouse workers and distribution centre staff will be employed in the new facility. The new warehouse is to serve the Warsaw agglomeration, with the new the distribution centre having opened in the first week of September 2023.
Currently there are over 10,800 Lidl stores in 32 countries and more than 700 in Poland. Lidl has been operating since 2002 and employs about 25,000 people.
Previous business expansions were announced in March 2022, with 1,500 new jobs (Lidl-2022a-PL), February 2022, with 300 jobs created, (Lidl-2022b-PL), August 2021, with 500 jobs created (Lidl-2021-PL), February 2021, with 2,600 jobs created (Lidl-2021-PL).
Eurofound (2023), Lidl, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 200300, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/200300.