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.
The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has announced plans to create 250 new positions at its units in Warsaw. AstraZeneca is mainly looking for IT and statistics specialists. Most of the new employees will work in the research and development centre, which focuses on research and medicine testing. The company has also revealed that more than PLN 1.5 billion (€349.6 million) will be invested by the end of 2022 in the Polish market. As of November 2018, AstraZeneca operates across 100 countries and employs around 51,700 staff globally.
Eurofound (2018), AstraZeneca, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 95934, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95934.