More than half of Poles expect quick return to 'normal' mode of work after the pandemic ends

Only 10 percent of Poles surveyed by EY Polska expect that it will take several years to return to work as we know it before the pandemic, or we will never go back to the habits and patterns we worked in before March 2020. According to 36 percent of respondents, it will take months to return to “normal at work”, and 54 percent of Poles expect it to happen very quickly (within days or weeks). Although the responses of the respondents of the Polish edition of the EY survey are similar to the global results, we differ in our views on the details of the functioning of professional life after the pandemic.

Although the topic of remote work is widely present in the public space, only 14 percent of Poles surveyed by EY Polska in the Polish edition of the Future Consumer Index survey expect that they will work from home more often. This result is definitely lower than the global average. In the world survey, such a change is expected by nearly half (48 percent) of the respondents.

"In the scale of the whole country, remote work is not as common as one might think looking only at companies located in larger agglomerations. Comparing the results from Poland with the global survey, it is clearly visible that in Poland forms of remote work and solutions allowing avoiding direct business contacts are not as common as in other countries. Of course, further dissemination of remote work will probably depend on the epidemic situation, but the scale of changes in the way of working expected by Poles is currently relatively small compared to the changes expected by respondents surveyed by EY in other countries,” Łukasz Wojciechowski, EY Partner, Leader of the Trade and Consumer Products Sector, said.

(WBJ)