Economics
EU’s Most Mobile Workforce Is Now Staying Home in Record Numbers
- More Poles than ever deciding against emigration, survey finds
- Labor crunch is mounting across Europe as worker flows dry up
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A record share of Poles, once among the most mobile workers in the European Union, has decided against emigration, choosing instead to ride a domestic jobs boom as labor shortages mount from Germany to the U.K.
With unemployment near the lowest ever and about every second company reporting greater difficulty in finding staff at home, almost 76 percent of Poles are “completely” ruling out the option of seeking employment abroad, according to a survey released on Tuesday by Work Service SA. That’s the most since the Warsaw-based recruiting and human services provider began to monitor migration preferences in Poland four years ago, when half the respondents planned to stay home.