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.
Lidl, a German discount chain located in Komenda in the Osrednjeslovenska region, will hire 100 new employees all over Slovenia by the end of this year. In the employers’ survey carried out by the Employment Service of Slovenia, the company reported that it will mainly hire salespersons and first time job-seekers. In 2014, Lidl had 1,226 employees in Slovenia, with 46 shops in different towns.
Eurofound (2016), Lidl, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 88225, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88225.