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.
French DIY chain Leroy Merlin has announced the creation of 100 jobs at its site shop in Beauvais (Oise). The new jobs are for sales assistants, floor managers, customer service representatives, logistics employees and managers.
Leroy Merlin employs over 21,322 people in 121 stores and reports turnover of € 5.80bn in 2014. It announced the creation of 110 jobs in Saint-Louis (La Réunion) in June 2014, 100 jobs in its new shop in Pleurtuit in May 2014, the creation of 300 jobs in the Parisian region in 2012 and the creation of 300 positions in a site in Valence (store and logistic platform) in 2007.
Eurofound (2016), Leroy Merlin, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 86611, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86611.