At the chamber’s Annual General Meeting, held on 29 May 2019, members voted unanimously to restructure the BPCC from an English Company Limited by Guarantee to a Polish employer’s organisation, and to to accept the accounts for the last financial year.
This is the most significant, and most useful, issue of Contact Magazine Online for a long, long time.
Rowena Everson, CEO Standard Chartered Poland, talks to Michael Dembinski, the BPCC’s chief advisor about the challenges of finding and keeping top people for the bank’s global business services centre in Warsaw.
Nowadays most organisations have started focusing on workplace surrounding and the welfare of the employees.
HR and payroll outsourcing is a strategic tool used by companies to improve the functioning of the personnel department, as well as the entire enterprise.
We are currently facing challenges that no one has ever had to deal with in the labour market in Poland before.
Browsing through a few flagship HR portals or some HR magazines gives you the feeling that some topics will never be fully exhausted. And rightly so.
Sooner or later all employees are open to new job opportunities, even when they are quite satisfied with their current employer.
In the current HR market situation, employers must implement various measures to attract and retain employees.
The most common type of the unpaid leave in Poland is a leave granted on general terms (urlop bezpłatny udzielany na zasadach ogólnych).
During my discussions with potential customers about working together in a remote working model I often hear the following objection: “I understand your point of view, but I like to have my team in the office with me.”
Modern businesses are aspiring to not only be flexible, but agile also. But what’s the difference, and why does it matter?
The international school market in Poland is a growing one, but in many ways it remains under-developed in comparison to countries of its size in Europe or in Asia.
Brilliant businesses are built from the inside out. Employees unlock commercial success, make or break reputations and generate powerful advocacy, from the bottom of an organisation to the top.
The Wellness Institute partners with individuals and organisations to enhance their levels of wellbeing and employee self-care, for better health and performance.
The Polish labour market has undergone a radical transformation in recent years. Just seven years ago, the unemployment rate was still in double digits.
Accountants will need to reassess their relationship with technology as the areas where automation meets emotional intelligence increase.
The ever-improving situation on the labour market and growing demand for modern office space prove that the Polish real estate sector is gaining momentum.
Digitisation, a shorter retention period, more clarity – but also additional formalities and new obligations for employers wanting to fully benefit from the new regulations on employee documentation.
Leadership coaching is currently regarded as an effective and an efficient method of the leaders’ growth and development.
Organisations worldwide are entering an era of monumental change: digital disruption, globalisation, redefined business models, changing demographics, growing talents in multigenerational teams, regulatory compliance, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing and machine learning (ML).
Do you find your flow at work?
Having attended City Week last month at the Guildhall in London, I was struck by the absence of Brexit in some of the presentations made by a mixture of City CEOs and EU ministers.
Aon’s 2019 Global Risk Management Survey identifies the challenges faced when assessing and responding to risks. As well as traditional risks that have always faced business, new ones are emerging and becoming graver.
On the 7th of June we hosted the BPCC’s second quarterly breakfast this year bringing together people connected with the built environment to swap insights into how the Polish market is developing. This event had a logistics and distribution focus, but discussion broadened further to cover the office, retail and residential sectors.
On May 30th, yet another BPCC & EY joint cruise took place aboard the NEREIDA cruiser.
On the 21st of May Spring Business Mixer was held in Kraków to provide opportunity to mix together for the members of the two strong chambers having activities in the south of Poland. It is already a tradition that British-Polish Chamber of Commerce and Scandinavian-Polish Chamber of Commerce meet at least once a year in Kraków.
The amount of data collected by companies around the world is growing exponentially. Will artificial intelligence come to the rescue?
The Third British-Polish Construction Forum took place on 24 May 2019 at the NatWest Conference Centre in the City of London. Organised by PBLINK, the event has become a regular fixture in the business calendar.
Dr Maciej Kawecki, director of the data-management department of the Ministry of Digital Affairs, was the keynote speaker at a meeting of the BPCC’s Technology, Media and Telecoms policy group on 3 April 2019, which focused on blockchain (distributed ledger technology, or DLT).
