Great optimization in Polish Post. 12 salaries for voluntary departure

The problems of Poczta Polska have been known for a long time. “After 466 years, 2024 may be the last year of Poczta Polska’s operations. The company survived partitions, partitions, wars, but it did not withstand the experiments of the government in recent years,” wrote the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union of Employees of Poczta Polska in Elbląg in January in a letter sent to the most important state institutions.

“Poland may be the first country without its own national post office,” the unionists emphasized. It is worth adding that the company is responsible for, among other things, delivering official correspondence, as well as delivering benefits, including pensions and retirement benefits, to several million citizens, so the end of the company would herald a lot of problems.

Layoffs at the Polish Post Office

The management announced large layoffs to save finances. “The transformation of Poczta Polska will be carried out in several stages. The first of them, called Poczta 1.0, assumes the introduction of the most urgent changes. They will be implemented this year and will include, among others, the IT area, improving the quality of postal services, as well as employment optimization,” it was reported in a Wednesday statement.

The voluntary redundancy plan will be aimed at administrative employees, and its aim is to provide proper financial security for those leaving. The company’s CEO, Sebastian Mikosz, assured that employees who decide to take advantage of it will receive the equivalent of 12 salaries and will be able to start a new job the next day.

He added that these changes are necessary “because today almost 65 percent of Poczta Polska’s costs are wages.”

The voluntary redundancy plan for employees of Poczta Polska will cover approximately 9 thousand employees, President Mikosz informed at a press conference on Wednesday. The plan will be implemented this year.

The CEO also announced that the company plans to invest approximately PLN 500 million in IT over the next three years, and that investments in facilities will be determined after conducting a detailed inventory.