Poland increasingly willing to employ foreigners

Polish firms will increasingly hire foreign workers. According to a report compiled by Work Service, 12 percent of them plan to employ immigrants in the next 12 months, whereas now 7 percent admit to have foreigners working for them. Employers do not show any reluctance towards different cultures, religions, races or ethnicities. They even report that foreigners have the same wage expectations as Poles and at the same time are conscientious, have an international experience and know different languages. As many as 23 percent of firms willing to hire foreigners are huge companies that employ more that 248 workers. Most frequently they are from the service sector (18 percent), production sector (16 percent) or the trade sector (11.4 percent). It is less common for immigrants to be hired in the public sector (3 percent). Moreover western Poland showed a higher tendency to recruit non-Poles than the eastern, where the willingness is in 2.5 percent of firms. Especially in north-western Poland immigrants are a welcome working force (28 percent), but also western Poland (18 percent) and in the central part (15.6 percent).