Poland Week talked with Aneta Rusiniak, Director, ESG – Europe at Invesco Real Estate, about the ESG strategy implementation in the real estate sector. Everyone is talking about ESG on the real estate market. So looking at the process of implementing ESG criteria, are we moving from talk to action? Yes, much is being said…
Sylwia Ziemacka talked to Agnieszka Sznyk, President of the Board at INNOWO. Let’s start from the beginning. What is a circular economy? It’s a new economic model which tries to use resources in a very sustainable way. In a circular economy we shouldn’t have waste at any stage of production and consumption. Everything that we…
24% of Polish companies want to hire new employees from October to December, but simultaneously, many companies are considering job cuts – these are two findings of the ManpowerGroup report published this week, presenting companies’ recruitment plans for the last quarter of this year. The net employment forecast for Poland for the fourth quarter of…
Beata Tomczyk talks to Dr Jacek Bartosiak, attorney at law, founder and owner of Strategy & Future. What exactly did Vladimir Putin want to achieve – we ask after more than six months of the war in Ukraine. Was it really about blocking the expansion of the zone of NATO countries and the European Union?…
Sylwia Ziemacka talks to Marta Winiarska, president of the board at Bioinmed. The position of Polish biotechnology companies in the global value chain is growing. Does the world see the potential of Polish companies on the biotechnology market? Still not. And even if it a bit does, it is still not enough. The world strongly…
Good investment prospects according to the report “Electromobility in Poland: investments, trends, employment 2021 report” created by the Polish Investment and Trade Agency, Bergman Engineering and the Polish Chamber of Electromobility Development. Since 2016, the Polish Investment and Trade Agency has supported nearly 30 investment projects in the electromobility sector, with a total value of…
The latest EY Future Consumer Index survey shows once again that Polish consumers are changing their shopping habits. Online shopping is much more common than before the pandemic. With the lifting of restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world’s consumers want a return to normal. In Poland, this is mentioned by 60%,…
Dropbox announced that it has opened a new entity, and begun hiring for the first time in Poland. With this, the company continues to strengthen its presence in Europe as part of its Virtual First strategy, which has seen Dropbox’s employee base become more and more globally distributed. So far, the company has posted over…
Polish companies that are part of international capital groups often adopt documentation, procedures and records of personal data processing that are globally applicable throughout the group. Such an approach often raises problems in light of the requirements of the GDPR and, instead of easing the company’s task of achieving compliance with the regulation, may expose…
Agnieszka Bulus-Trando talks to Monika Bronicka, MRICS Director, Head of Valuation and Advisory at Avison Young How are the current economic and geopolitical changes affecting real estate valuation? Real estate appraisal is an element that is important to investors, banks, developers and property owners during the whole economic cycle. In the changing reality related to…
How an international team of scientists based in Poland fights a global battle for our eyes. In “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” Yuval N. Harari foresees a human tendence for self-perfection expanding in the society of the future, in a modern reinterpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy. The usage of bionic organs, the possibility of visual information transfer from…
Poland desperately needs to speed up investments in the renewable energy sector, both to meet the EU’s tough decarbonisation targets as well as to find new sources of energy to replace its dwindling coal-fired power capacity and avoid the risk of blackouts. Wind farm projects, both onshore and offshore, along with the rapidly developing solar…