A brand new report by the Polish Company for Enterprise Improvement has discovered Poland’s video gaming workforce to be among the many largest in Europe.
The report, titled The Sport Business of Poland Report 2023, notes that the Polish video games trade is rising constantly with file numbers yr after yr.
Rising up the ranks
In complete, the report states that there are 15,290 individuals in employment in Polish video games manufacturing, that means the nation has lastly surpassed Germany and located itself a spot in Europe’s prime three international locations on this metric. As for the variety of sport producers and publishers using such numbers, the whole has now reached 494.
The proportion of ladies on this workforce can also be noteworthy as one of many highest globally, at 24 %.
Not solely that, Poland’s employment progress is the truth is the quickest in Europe, estimated to be someplace between 23 and 27 % year-on-year since 2017. Workforce distribution throughout firms is different, however the majority of groups (78 %) comprise fewer than 25 staff. In the meantime, 16 firms have greater than 200 staff and 56 have greater than 50 individuals per workforce.
As for overseas staff, Ukrainians characterize the most important proportion.
On the income aspect, Poland nonetheless has room to develop – its workforce rating not at the moment mirroring its earnings. Whereas Poland’s video games trade generated €1.286 billion in income final yr, it nonetheless ranked behind the UK (which additionally has Europe’s largest workforce), France, Germany, Finland and Sweden.
“In the present day, the Polish pc sport trade is the synonym of high quality, creativity, and innovation. It’s price remembering, nonetheless, that this was not all the time the case. This sector of the economic system has reworked over the past twenty years from a distinct segment right into a billion-dollar enterprise,” stated Polish Company for Enterprise Improvement president Dariusz Budrowski.
The complete report consists of knowledge and profiles on 190 Polish sport firms.
This spring, sport developer Virtuos introduced a brand new department of the corporate in Poland devoted to creating “best-in-class” graphics.
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