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.
Supermarket chain Lidl will hire 400 new employees in Spain in 2015. This is part of its expansion plans in Spain, which includes an investment in excess of EUR 200m with the opening of 40 sales outlets. Most of the new jobs will be in sales. Additionally, the company is looking for young workers that can be hired in different areas such as logistics, finance, marketing and human resources. Lidl entered into the Spanish market in 1994. Currently, it has 530 sales outlets in Spain.
Eurofound (2015), Lidl, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 83654, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83654.