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.
Polish food manufacturing company Pimenta Foods is to employ 200 people in a new manufacturing site in Łowicz. The company is a start-up producing hummus and antipasti. They are planning to employ 200 people by the end of March 2023. The firm wants to invest PLN 90,000,000 (EUR 19,149,000) in total in the manufacturing site. The company is mainly looking for operational workers.
Pimenta Foods closely cooperates with other food manufacturing companies in Germany, which agreed to help provide production expertise for their management and operational employees.
Eurofound (2022), Pimenta Foods, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 107397, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107397.