For most organisations in Poland, the last nine months have been a period of great uncertainty, continuous analyses, development of future scenarios, and reformulation of the way they think and operate. Leaders and managers – albeit seemingly less visible and hidden behind computer screens – are now stepping into the spotlight on a much larger arena. Each decision they make, each word they utter and each action they take is instantly evaluated by their employees, business partners, friends or strangers – in the offline and online realm alike. Will leadership skills in the ‘new normal’ have to differ from those that were desirable in the pre-Covid-19 environment?

Social isolation related to the coronavirus pandemic, and fears for their own and their loved ones’ health cause many people to fall into the trap of negative emotions. In this difficult time, it is extremely important to support employees.

Building trust with courageous leadership

Can you terminate an employment contract online? Coronavirus has been our new reality for eight months now, and many of us have largely transitioned to remote working. It seems that many aspects of the work we do, as well as our HR tasks, do not necessarily have to be done on-site with physical participation from both parties. But what about firing employees?

The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated the development of new technologies and is contributing to the digitalisation of the labour market. Firms should pay particular attention to protection of their employees' personal data, especially information which is collected electronically.

When analysing the current situation at the labour market, it’s worth checking the predictions we made back in April regarding to HR challenges ahead.

With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 has brought employers enormous challenges. In the first months of the pandemic, adapting to the need to reorganise work was the most urgent of these. Increasing use of remote work hasn’t released employers from their other obligations under the Labour Code, obligations that include counteracting mobbing and respecting the principle of equal treatment in employment.

The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly affected the labour market. Employers in most European countries are facing the same problems: a decline in turnover, liquidity issues, interrupted supply chains, production problems, ensuring safe conditions at work or remote working for large groups of workers, and the absence of employees due to isolation or quarantine.

Interested in starting or expanding your business in Poland and moving there?

In this article we explain the legal aspects of business and life in Poland, such as starting a business, dealing with taxes across different forms of activity, and how the Polish healthcare and education systems work.

As we reignite our businesses, there’s one thing our people will remember about the last few weeks and months: how we treated them. We may have had to cut their pay and asked them to work remotely. Some may have had to exit the business completely.

Leadership coaching has a great influence on the main areas of leaders’ lives, often simultaneously. It is a holistic process which concentrates on a leaders’ transformation and strives for their authenticity and self-realisation. Leaders undergo a transformational change to discover and realise their potential and effectively apply it in the organisational context. Their transformation is visible on a behavioural level as a consequence of their internal deep change that contributes to the organisation performance.

When analyzing changes in Polish regulatory landscape in 2021, it’s difficult not to notice regulators rising attention towards whistleblower protection. To name but a few examples; there has been a proposal for a new act on Criminal Liability of Collective Entities as well as a EU Directive on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law, which obliges entrepreneurs to create internal processes and procedures for handling and protecting whistleblowers. Undertakings subject to the new regulations are recommended to already take the first steps to review and possibly expand the existing policies and procedures, develop the legal and ethical awareness of their staff and equip their organizations with suitable technical tools and solutions.

This is the story of how a specialist rail transportation company became one of Poland’s top employers, built by an award-winning team of ‘the strongest people’.

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, remote work has become widespread. Statutory measures made available to employers allow them to ask employees to work outside their usual workplace.

Almost 70% of Gen Zers dream of a good atmosphere at work and being able to hone their skills, reveals Gen Z: A Workplace of the Leaders of the Future, a report from global real-estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield.

Kinnarps, Kozmiński University, Polski Instytut Środowiska Pracy (the Polish institute of the working environment) and Pro Progressio, published a report on a collective survey on home office conditions and challenges while practising social distancing during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, from March to June 2020.

Healthy future at any age, which took place online on 12 November 2020 was an exceptional meeting of international representatives of science and academia, business, regulators and investors, focusing on the development of healthy longevity agenda in our region and beyond.