According to AT Kearney’s Global Services Location Index (GSLI) Poland has gone from 5th most attractive site for outsourcing companies, such as call center companies and IT service providers, to just number 38th. Last year the same report Poland in 18th spot.

The ranking – based on financial attractiveness, labour skills availability and business environment – shows that Asia, Middle East and Africa become more attractive for investors than Central and Eastern Europe countries.

Global international companies are fleeing Poland due to sharp rising costs, exchange rate instability and the finance crisis in general. American companies have returned to open call centers in small American cities, or to the Middle East and Asia, instead of Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.