Up to 20,000 new workplaces in the outsourcing sector

Deputy director at the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency Monika Piątkowska has said that employment in the outsourcing sector will increase by some 20,000 workplaces to 170,000 in 2015. "We have more than 600 outsourcing centers, in which we employ around 150,000 people, mainly in major, academic cities such as Kraków, Warsaw and Wrocław. Recently, the sector has also been expanding in the mid-sized cities. According to our estimates, at the end of 2015, there will be as many as 170,000 people working in outsourcing centers," Piątkowska said. The agency has also informed that currently it is working on 163 investment projects worth €2.97 billion, which are expected to create nearly 30,000 workplaces.