Most recently 200 employees in KBS were LRd affecting control and finance departments, moving many of the positions to MBS and HBS. Ahead of the news being sent to the affected ones some senior leadership moved to global function roles. PwC finished delivering a study where they've recommended to built a hub in Romania to take the remaining KBS functions.
KBS wave 2 is set for the latest EOY 2025 and/or within 1 year from now.
Cost of operations, defective operation models, reluctance to accept the digital transformation era and that all seats on a technological component, lack of standardization, inflexibility to the usage of what suits better framework versus using one framework that suits all (lean, why?!), overstaffing, resistance management, poor segregation of duties, too wide vertical functions... all has triggered the failure of implementing a strategy that on paper could only be successful regardless the framework lingo.
Other than that, global functions hired in Poland are yet to be assessed depending on value/costs. More companies are yet going away from Poland.
PwC was hired to do more of the same assessments for different companies in Poland, including some that have just set new hubs. So is fair to say that PwC market assessment stating that an estimated 70% of all big corporations with business services hubs in Poland will move away due the costs of having business in the country is not an overstatement and shouldn't be overlooked. Big corporations decision makers walk hand-to-hand and share a lot of insightful ideas with each other, also why many of this type of decisions are taken in pack.
To all Poles and Poland residents, take attention and good care of yourselves, maybe a solution could pass by reducing the currency value but, EU won't let it go unpunished.