According to estimates, 120 to 150 000 drivers are missing throughout the country. According to the data of the 2025 competition barometer, the list of 17 professions, which will be in deficit in 2026, includes drivers, doctors and psychologists.The “professional barometer” commissioned by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has been developed by the Provincial Labour Office in Krakow. Old workers leave, young people don't comeThe worst is in the transport industry. As many as 326 counties will miss truck drivers. Maciej Wroński, president of the Association of Employers Transport and Logistics Poland (TLP), explained in his interview with Rz that not only truck drivers are missing in Poland, but besides buses and vans. What causes specified drastic shortcomings in this industry? According to the interviewer, the diary involves retirement of older workers. And young Poles do not want to work as a driver. Their choice is influenced by, among others, separation from their household and hard social conditions. This attitude does not change even the fact that companies offer about 500 PLN per day. Theoretically, they could hire abroad drivers. Only that foreigners are increasingly hard to get a Polish visa, and procedures go on for years. wellness care has akin problems wellness care is besides struggling. According to the “Barometer of professions” doctors, nurses and midwives deficiency about 80 percent of the districts. Forecasts show that these shortages will proceed to increase, especially in a situation of fast ageing of the population. Among the reasons for this are insufficient wages, hard working conditions and the deficiency of people with adequate qualifications. In this case, support from abroad is limited by, among others, the language barrier. The deficiency of psychologists and therapists is besides felt. The request for intellectual assistance is inactive growing, but in many places there is no 1 to give it.
