Gremi Personal Analytics Centre Study: 69% of Foreign Workers in Poland Have Encountered Opaque Pay Schemes at Employment Agencies

The Gremi Personal Analytics Centre conducted a sociological study among 600 foreign workers who are currently working or have previously worked in Poland through employment agencies. The results show that a high rate in a job advertisement still attracts attention, but is increasingly prompting candidates to proceed with caution rather than agree immediately.

69% of respondents had personally encountered at least one non-transparent practice in the way their rate was structured or their pay was calculated. The more agencies a worker had passed through, the more frequently they had come across such schemes - among those who had worked through five or more agencies, the figure reaches nearly 89%.

The study also reveals how the behaviour of experienced workers is changing: they are increasingly checking the agency, the contract, ZUS contributions and deductions before agreeing to a vacancy. For the market, this signals a gradual shift in the rules of competition - the winner is no longer the highest figure in the advertisement, but the agency's ability to explain what that figure actually consists of.

The full press release with all study data is available at yavp.pl.