ABSTRACT
Maintaining employment in the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is crucial for the functioning of the economy. However, in a situation of economic crisis, the changes in the area of employment of workers often become the foremost way of adapting to declining financial resources, which are the result of reduction of interest in the offer of the enterprise. These actions had proven to be particularly evident in the case of global financial and economic crisis, which also affected the Polish economy after 2008.
