GUS: Significant decline in creating jobs by medium-sized and big companies

There were 601,900 new vacancies in Poland in 2015, which means 2.1 percent y/y decrease in comparison with 2014, the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported. The worse results of employment were found in the medium-sized companies: enterprises employing 10-49 persons put 15.1 percent less vacancies on the market, than in the previous year. Moreover, big companies (more than 49 employees) also reported the decline in job creation, but only by 1.5 percent.

However, the increase in the number of new vacancies were observed in small firms, which employ less than 10 people. Here, the number of created jobs grew by 7.1 percent.