Poland
High-tech companies investing in Poland may face labor shortage
Classified Polnews
Warsaw, Poland September 19, 2006. Poland has become the choice of several high-tech companies for the location of new factories that project hiring many Polish workers. But Polish workers are leaving Poland to work at higher wages in other European Union countries. New factories being built in Poland, and relying on and local Polish labor, may find a labor shortage.
Polish emigration has been high. Numbers are floating about with estimates of over 1.1 million people and some have floated the numbers of 2 million people and more.
People are emigrating from Poland in search of earning more money and finding opportunities that do not exist in Poland.
There is some evidence that people are leaving Poland not only because of the money aspect but also because of the cultural revolution that is being pushed upon the country by the current government.
Dell Computer is one of the companies that has announced that it is building a large factory in Poland. It will employ a significant number of people.
Dell is already a large employer of Polish people in the United Kingdom. And Dell intends to recruit for its Polish factory from this Polish labor pool in the United Kingdom.
If companies like Dell Computer are to entice their employees to come back to Poland from the United Kingdom, it is likely that they're going to have to offer significant pay packages that will be far above the pay packages that are offered to people currently working in Poland.
If there are those who are in England because they do not like the changes being made in Poland, added enticements may have to be offered in order to get them to move back to Poland.
If one in Poland advertises for people in the high-tech sector today, the number of people responding to an advertisement has dropped significantly from what one would get two years ago.
Where two years ago one might get three to four hudred responses in a week to an advertisdment for people knowledgeable of HTML, that same advertisement now will draw typically three to four people.
For the high-tech companies coming into Poland, to build a work force they are going to have to face the fact that there is probably not going to be a cheap labor force. And on top of not having a cheap labour force, the added costs of putting a polish employee on in Poland will be a significant burden.
But first they have to find people who have not left the country. If the experience of companies in Poland is any indication of what they will experience, that may not be as easy as they think.
Whether these companies face a labor shortage or not, they are going to significantly affect the pay scales for high-tech workers in Poland.
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