Central Eastern European Landscape:
Optimistic Czech and Pessimistic Polish Employees

Czech employees are the most optimistic in the region while Polish are the most desperate; still Microsoft in Poland has been ranked in the first place in the regional Best Employers Study.

Hewitt Associates has just announced the results of the Best Employers Study in the Central and Eastern European region. Hewitt surveyed 51 761 employees at 205 companies in 4 Central Eastern European countries regarding their quality of workplace in 2005. Hungarian, Czech, Polish and Austrian companies participated in the competition, racing for the title of the “Best Employers”. Microsoft in Poland is ranked first in the competition; the dominance of the service sector is tangible.

Some of the Best Employers on the list have proven that it's not impossible to become a "multi-country" Best Employer, like Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline or Merck which have been Best Employers in several countries. No doubt, the war for talent has begun.

The people working in the region generally are the most satisfied with the relations with their colleagues, their work environment and the support of their boss. The workplaces of the region uniformly demonstrate the fields with the highest level of dissatisfaction: performance related pay and the lack of appealing career possibilities seem to be unavoidable problems at most of the workplaces.

On the other hand, the diversity is clearly visible from the results of the Study: while Czech workers are the most optimistic concerning their workplace, Polish and Hungarian employees are the most pessimistic.

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