Business services centers may flee from Poland

here are more and more companies in the business services sector in Poland – which was, until recently, driving the employment growth – that are raising questions about their further development in the country. Representatives of the Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL), who in the middle of this year talked about a certain slowdown in the rapid development of this industry, are now worried that the growth may be stunted.

Planned changes in the social insurance policy are the main reason for this. “Admittedly, new investments are coming in, but the planned changes in ZUS are a big threat to business services centers already operating in Poland,” argued Paweł Panczyj, board member and development and strategy director at ABSL. He claimed that some of the industry’s companies have decided to wait for the results of the upcoming elections before they implement their development plans.

In an ABSL survey carried out at the beginning of this year, as many as 87% of investors from the sector declared plans to expand their operations to include new processes or new markets.

As calculated by Oskar Sobolewski, an expert from the Pension Institute, the planned social insurance changes will mean that an employee earning PLN 15,000 a month costs his employer an additional PLN 10,900 annually. At the same time, the employee’s salary will decrease by over PLN 2,100 per year.
(Rzeczpospolita)