KPMG: 40% of firms want to hire in 2016

As much as 40 percent of Polish companies are planning to employ next year, according to a report complied by KPMG. "Due to the threat of the economic crisis, Polish firms made a huge restructurization of employment in 2009-2010. That is why those which are more optimistic about the future are aware that their growth may require an increase in employment," Leszek Wroński, partner at KPMG said as quoted in a press release on the report. While 40 percent of  Polish employers are going to hire in 2016, nearly half of them (49 percent) said they would maintain the number of employees. When it comes to the other CEE countries, the highest ingrease in employment was declared by Romanian companies (42 percent) and the lowest, by Lithuanian and Latvian (21 percent each). Furthermore, 45 percent of companies operating in Poland are planning to implement rises next year, thus Poland was placed the lowest compared with the other CEE countries, alongside  Latvia (39 percent), Hungary (39 percent) and Bosnia and Hercegovina (42 percent), KPMG also reported. The Czech and Estonian companies seem to be the most generous, because three quarters of employers are willing to raise wages.