Where would be best to set up an office in Poland?

Wroclaw Boy

25 Apr 2008 / #1

[Moved from]: Office strategy in Poland - be nice or not nice?

My wife tells me that in order to get things done in Poland you have to be sickly nice to the person sitting behind the desk even if they are totally incompetent.

Anyone have experience one way or the other?

plk123 8 | 4119

25 Apr 2008 / #2

yeah but getting mean works too.. depends on the circumstance.

grea$e always helps too. ;) :D

Wroclaw Boy

25 Apr 2008 / #3

depends on the circumstance.

Exactly, if its important be nice. If not let them have it.

OP richard_pratt 1 | -

22 May 2008 / #4

I'm looking to set up an office in Poland, and will be initially employing 4 people, perhaps up to a hundred over time. Where would be a good place to set up? The work is for people who would work as technical authors, requiring excellent English. Use of Business and IT vocabulary would be important.

Also if you are a technical author or are suitable for this role of doing the research and then applying this to create first class documentation please let me know.

davidpeake 14 | 451

23 May 2008 / #5

Wroclaw would be a good choice as it has a large student population and great uni's. A lovely city also.

lesser 4 | 1311

23 May 2008 / #6

In Gdansk there is very good technical university.

Rocjovi - | 10

23 May 2008 / #7

Gdansk would be a good choice. There's Gdansk University, and Gdansk University of Technical. Plus, it's much cheaper to run a business in Gdansk than in Warsaw or Krakow.

If you decide to locate your business in Gdansk, we can help you set up the company, recruit people, legal service and accounting service, apply for work permit, etc.

We are a local consulting company in Gdansk, with strong local influence, good connections with local authorities and universities.

Doradca Consultants Ltd (Gdynia & Warsaw)

Sara Jing Wang
Tel: +48 58 621 9186, 621 9187.
Fax: +48 58 621 9927.
Email: swang@doradca.com.pl

Guest

23 May 2008 / #8

Krakow is the bast place and dont lisin to people that tells You Wroclaw.
Krakow has the biggest schools and the most students.

z_darius 14 | 3960

23 May 2008 / #9

Krakow is the bast place and dont lisin to people that tells You Wroclaw.

Actually, Google established their offices in Wroclaw for a number of reasons. One was a steady supply of highly qualified staff and unfavorable conditions set forth by Krakow officials.

A quote from Time Magazine:

Nowadays, the elegant old market square in the city center, once the site of a few scruffy museums, is lined with designer shops, sushi bars and restaurants. Companies from LG Philips (LCD screens) to Google (service support) have poured $5 billion into the local economy in the past five years, creating 200,000 jobs in a city of just 650,000. The mayor's office reviewed 560 investment projects last year alone. Since 2002, unemployment dropped from 14% to under 5%. Mayor Rafal Dutkiewicz credits low production costs, a good location near the autobahns to Western Europe and a deep pool of educated young workers: local universities graduate 24,000 students each year.

time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1729145-1,00.html

Danziger - | 5

23 May 2008 / #10

Generally Warsaw (most expensive), Wroclaw, Cracow, Poznan or Gdansk are the places.
I personally recommend you Gdansk ;) Lots of new IT establishment recently here.

ForsakenOne - | 38

23 May 2008 / #11

z_darius: Google office is also located in Krakow!

Mag - | 2

25 May 2008 / #12

I also recommend Wroclaw. That's the fastest develope city in the Europe, specially in technical, electronics and IT scoupe.
There are good technical universities as well.
I'm sure that Wroclaw will be perfect choice !

Is it possible to find somewhere some job ads of your company?
I'm looking for a job currently, and I'm wonder waht kind of people you will looking for for your team.

~Mag