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Information / Computing Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and other information service activities Web search portal activities and other information service activities 63.91 - Web search portal activities
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 October 2024
Employment effect (start)
15 October 2024
Foreseen end date
31 December 2024
Description
Doctolib, a French online healthcare services platform, is set to hire 100 new engineers and developers and invest €100 million in AI technologies. This initiative aims to streamline appointment bookings through AI-driven conversational tools, enabling medical professionals to save time and conduct more consultations.
In 2023, Doctolib had a total workforce of around 3,200.
The European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) has documented several significant restructurings related to Doctolib, including hiring in 2022, 300 workers in Germany: Doctolib 2022 - DE 200 workers in Italy: Doctolib 2022 - IT, and150 workers in France Doctolib 2022 - FR,
Eurofound (2024), Doctolib, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 201955, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201955.
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.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
