About a third of the estimated 2 million Ukrainians fleeing the war to Poland will be able to start work by the summer, easing a labor shortage in the European Union’s largest eastern economy, a survey of companies showed.
Poland, along with other countries in the bloc’s east, has long reported a high number of job vacancies as younger Poles emigrate to better paying jobs elsewhere. With about 200,000 currently unfilled positions, Polish unemployment dropped to 2.9% in the first quarter of this year, the EU’s second-lowest after the Czech Republic.
Among the 300 companies surveyed by Personnel Service last month, a third of them already employ Ukrainians, and another quarter plan to. The majority of those looking to hire or already working with Ukrainians are from the hospitality sector.
