Number of microcompanies is growing

As many as 1.826 million microcompanies, that is firms, which employ less than nine workers, were in Poland in 2014, an increase of 4.1 percent compared with 2013 and 9.6 percent more than in 2009. They were hiring 3.6 million people in total, 3.7 percent more than in 2013, said the Central Statistical Office (GUS). Microcompanies' revenues grew by 19.8 percent (PLN 146 billion) in the years 2009-2014. Some 26 percent of these companies operate in car sales and repair and a further 12 percent focus on "professional, scientific and technical" undertakings.