The Polish labour marketplace is entering the phase of structural change. Although unemployment remains low, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy data show an upward trend. In December 2025 it amounted to 5.7 percent, compared to 5.1 percent the year before. individual Service experts stress that this is the effect of deep transformation, in which artificial intelligence plays a key role.
A survey by the planet economical Forum shows that the stableness of employment will not be determined by technology itself, but by the ability to cooperate with AI, to proceed to retraining and developed social and managerial competences.
According to data from the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, the number of unemployed people is steadily expanding – in the autumn of 2024 it was 786 1000 people of working age, while 1 year later it was 889 thousand.
– The labour marketplace is simply a living, dynamically changing organism, which eliminates people remaining in competence stagnation more and more quickly. From ours "Polish Labour marketplace Barometer" It is clear that as early as 2025, 45 percent of employees declared plans to improve their competences. This shows the increasing awareness that improvement present is not just a means of higher pay, but a condition for surviving on the labour market. In the context of economical slowdown and progressive automation, it is those who invest in fresh skills who have the best chance of maintaining employment and maintaining their competitiveness – he comments Krzysztof Inglot, labour marketplace expert and founder of individual Service.
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Latest planet economical Forum study "Four Futures for Jobs in the fresh Economy: AI and Talent in 2030" shows how the improvement of artificial intelligence and the level of individual preparation will form the labour marketplace by 2030. The future of employment depends not on technology itself, but on the competences that workers and companies are developing today.
Digital competences and AI
The competitiveness of the labour marketplace is increasingly based on the ability to usage digital tools and knowing how artificial intelligence works. The study shows that AI ceases to be a domain of specialized IT teams and becomes a regular tool for working in an expanding number of professions. Employees who can usage AI to analyse data, automate tasks or support decision-making processes are systematically expanding their value for employers. In practice, this means that cognition of AI tools is increasingly becoming an expected standard alternatively than an additional asset.
Human cooperation with AI
The most unchangeable direction of the improvement of the labour marketplace is simply a model based on human and technological cooperation, not replacing them. Key competences related to the supervision of algorithms, critical evaluation of their results and decision making where context, experience and work are needed are becoming key. The future belongs to workers who can act as “coordinators” of AI's work, not just contractors of regular tasks.
Prepared for continuous learning and change of competence
The life cycle of skills is systematically shortening, and many professions in the current form will vanish or undergo crucial transformation. This means that the key competence is the ability to constantly learn, retraining and flexible transition between professional roles. Employees who treat skills improvement as a continuous process, not a one-time career phase, have a much better chance of maintaining employment in an economical downturn.
Social and managerial competences
With progressive automation, the importance of skills that cannot be replaced with algorithms grows. The value of social competences, specified as communication, cooperation, empathy, leadership and critical thinking, is thus increasing.. It is these that effectively manage teams, build relationships and make decisions in a complex, uncertain environment where technology is support alternatively than the only origin of response.
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Personal Service S.A. is a company specialised in HR solutions. The main areas of activity are recruitment of employees from Ukraine for employers in Poland, outsourcing, temporary work, as well as permanent and specialist recruitments for IT and medicine industries. Personnel Service cooperates with companies from many sectors, including automotive, RTV/AGD and dense industry. The company has its own legalization department in Poland, many branches in Ukraine, besides operates in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Finland.
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