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.
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German discount supermarket chain Lidl has announced that it will create about 600 new jobs at its stores across Poland. The company has also raised salaries by 9.2%.
Lidl operates in every member state of the European Union, except Latvia and Estonia. In Poland, the company has about 670 stores and 9 distribution centres, and employs over 17,000 people.
In 2018, the company announced three restructuring programmes: in April (500 new jobs), September (220 new jobs) and December (200 new jobs).
Eurofound (2019), Lidl, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 97217, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97217.