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.
On 28 October 2014, drugstore chain Rossmann announced the creation of 300 jobs at its newly opened regional logistic centre for the southern Poland in Pyskowice near Katowice. The investment is worth PLN 70 mln (€16.60 mln USD 21.mln). The sources report that the number of employees will grow by 100 in the next five years.
Rossmann is a drugstore chain operating in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Turkey and Albania. The company has been operating in Poland since 1993. The chain has 945 stores and it employs 13,000 people in 400 locations across the country.
The ERM reported on previously announced restructuring events in 2014 and 2010.
Eurofound (2014), Rossmann Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 77821, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77821.