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.
French-owned global IT services and business consultancy company Capgemini has announced that it will create 100 jobs at its service centre in Wrocław by the end of 2014. According to the source, the company is looking to employ IT specialists and accountants.
The Capgemini group, headquartered in Paris, specialises in consulting, technology, outsourcing and local professional services. The sources note that the company has been operating in Poland since 1996 and employs over 5,800 people in five offices across Poland (Wrocław, Kraków, Katowice, Warszawa and Opole). The service centre has been operating in Wrocław since 2004 and currently employs 600 people.
The ERM reported other instances of restructuring announced by the company in 2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2011a, 2011b, 2007 and 2005.
Eurofound (2014), Capgemini, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 77304, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77304.