A limited endeavour at work

The legal weekly working time regularly decreased these last years to reach forty hours in 2003. The day labourer duration is fixed at eight hours, but it can be prolonged to ten hours if the weekly standard is respected.

The usual schedules in office are from eight to fifteen, sixteen or seventeen hours, but certain people still start at six o'clock in the morning, to finish their day at the beginning of the afternoon.

The rate of work is generally small. Moreover, it is not rare that the employees occupy another not declared activity, which offers a complement of income to them. For these reasons, the absenteeism is extremely widespread.

A civil servant spirit

Except the foreign and the young companies, the types of bureaucratic organizations continue to characterize the Polish firms. The professional reports are treated on a hierarchical basis and the communication is primarily vertical.

The industrial relationships between colleagues are relatively formal, except when the links of friendship were woven.

Difficulties of the team work

Contrary to the family or religious unit, the company and capitalism are seen per much Pole like a space of confrontation. The colleagues cooperate little and maintain a certain secrecy in the exercise of their work. It is generally difficult to work in group and to arrive to a compromise.

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