Accenture prepares massive expansion plans

It may also choose to set up a second facility at another location in Poland  The company originally estimated ultimate employment at the Warsaw centre at 1,000, but the scale of business surpassed expectations. "We have recently won huge tenders to provide bookkeeping services to three major listed companies," says Paweł Łobejko, general manager, who went on to say, "At the moment we are adding 50 new people every month, and our current space in Warsaw will accommodate not more than 200 new staff, so we will soon need to decide the best way to grow in Poland." According to Łobejko, the likeliest locations other than Warsaw include Szczecin, Lublin and Białystok. Accenture, which also has an IT outsourcing centre in Łódź, increased its Polish workforce six-fold, to 1,200, since 2003. But, says Jarosław Koc, CEO of Accenture Polska, "in Spain, which is of comparable size, we employ 12,000 people, so Poland has really huge potential." (Puls Biznesu, p. 9) R.M.