Poland as the destination for Shared Services Centers

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Key locations for SSC
This section presents potential locations for Shared Services Centers and BPO operation
in Poland. The cities included in the case studies were: Cracow, Lublin, Łódź, Poznań, Szczecin,
the Tri-city (Gdansk, Gdynia, Sopot), Warsaw and Wrocław. We have selected these cities
because of the large pool of well qualified people in each of these cities.
For each location we have presented an overview of the selected city as well as the key issues
for setting up an SSC in the location, including the main investors locating their activity in the
city and its surrounding area, the city’s infrastructure, availability and prices of real estate, labor
market characteristics, education system and examples of tourist attractions.
The information presented in the „Key locations for SSC” section is based on publicly available
data published by the selected city’s authories on official city websites, real estate agencies
(Colliers International, Cushman&Wakefield, Knight Frank), the Polish Central Statistical Office
(GUS), the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ), as well as materials
provided by regional investor information agencies in the analized cities
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