Incredible Shrinking Workforce Adds to Poland's Labor Pinch
A worker holds two cordless drills while preparing wall sections for pre-fabricated homes at the Danwood SA factory in Bielsk Podlaski, Poland, on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2017. It’s the end of an era of cheap and ample labor that underpinned their transition from communism, with growing complaints that a labor dearth is threatening to foil production plans.Photographer: Piotr Malecki/Bloomberg
A labor shortage has increasingly emerged as one of the biggest hurdles for the European Union’s biggest eastern economy. Now the remaining pool of available workers is drying up fast.