Mikosz: We do not plan to reduce employment in the near future

Poczta Polska will not reduce employment in the near future, the company's president Sebastian Mikosz told PAP. He added that the operator's EBITDA result for 2025 will be positive and higher than last year, which indicates that the company is becoming more and more financially stable.

In Mikosz's opinion, the improving financial situation of Poczta Polska is evidenced by the EBITDA result (operating profit excluding interest on incurred liabilities, as well as taxes and depreciation – PAP) for 2025, which will be higher than for 2024.

– For this year, just like last year, EBITDA will be positive. This year we increased this plus. (…) This will confirm the trend of our financial stabilization. This means that 2026 will be more difficult for us, because we will expect investments, and we do not yet have sufficient funds for this. (…) Our biggest problem as an institution is that we have been investing dramatically too little over the last 20 years – said the PAP interlocutor.

He added that increasing investments will be “the biggest challenge for the Post Office in the next 2-3 years” and it is necessary to ensure positive changes for both the Post Office's customers and its employees.

Asked whether Poczta Polska anticipates mass layoffs in the near future, Mikosz replied that “at the moment there are no plans to reduce employment”, which – as he assessed – is currently “stabilized at a fairly good level”.

– However, please remember that when we make changes to employment contracts, we must apply the group dismissal procedure, but these are “technical” dismissals.. (…) We were high in the statistics, but not because we were reducing employment. (…) There will come a time when we will employ again – he concluded.

According to data published in May this year. information provided by Poczta Polska on the results for 2024, the company recorded a net loss of PLN 213 million, which was PLN 408 million lower than in 2023. In turn, EBITDA increased to PLN 42 million in 2024, compared to a negative result of PLN 591 million a year earlier. In 2024, Poczta Polska also recorded an increase in sales revenues by PLN 200 million, which means a year-on-year improvement of 3 percent, and revenues from universal services increased by PLN 139 million, or 4.8 percent. compared to 2023. The Company then recalled that in 2023 it recorded a record gross loss of PLN 745 million; in 2024, the gross result improved by PLN 515 million.

Poczta Polska also informed that from November 2024 to the end of March 2025, as a result of the Voluntary Redundancy Program and natural departures from the company, such as retirement, employment in the company decreased by over 6,000. people and amounts to over 51 thousand employees.

Poczta Polska is a State Treasury company, the largest postal operator on the domestic market. Its network covers 7.6 thousand branches, branches and postal agencies throughout Poland. According to the company, over 90% of people use its services. Poles. The company delivers 800 million letters and 80 million parcels annually. (PAP)

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