Work Service survey shows 11.8% of workforce consider economic emigration

Some 11.8 percent of active or potential participants in the labor market in Poland is considering emigration for work purposes, which means a decrease by 2 percent compared to the previous edition of the study by employment agency Work Service. In turn, there is a growing number of people who categorically reject traveling abroad to work. "More than a half of respondents (56.5 percent) who are considering emigration are people planning a trip for the first time in their lives, a group of almost 1.5 million people. Over 40 percent of people planning to take up a job abroad are Poles aged 35-44," the survey found. As noted in the report, apart from the decrease in the percentage of people planning to emigrate, there is a growing pool of people who strongly reject plans for travel. "Currently, 75.8 percent of respondents definitely do not consider taking up employment abroad, which is the highest indication in the history of the study and a result of over 10 percentage points higher than last year," it was reported. The study was carried out between March 20 and 29, 2018 on a sample of 708 people.