When you browse articles about Polish workplaces, the word "folwark" comes up pretty regularly. Typically in a phrase like "employer treats the company like his folwark".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folwark

https://biznes.gazetaprawna.pl/artykuly/801950,kapitalizm-po...

This article would be titled "Polish Capitalism: folwark is holding up well.". The opening paragraph:
"His will, whim, mood determines what happens to the company and its workers. Pan (sir, master) says what to do and how to do it. If he's in good mood - he will praise you. If he's mad - will reprimand you, yell at you, fire you. Will put you into pillory."

The article goes on to bring up the uniquely polish Pan/Cham* dichotomy (Sir vs rube/redneck/yahoo/hillbilly), books that describe the relationship, areas of society where it thrives (one person rules, the rest timidly obeys).

It's poignant that many corporations operating in Poland have a toxic mix of Western corporate culture and Polish feudal relations.

Some extra aspects that I personally encountered: recruitment is done by HR and/or boss. Potential future coworkers, their representatives are frequently left out. Bosses like to micromanage rather than delegate tasks, unless to push something unpleasant down and away. This is also visible in government. I vaguely remember an interview describing a foreign statesman minister. He arrived and had a lecture of sorts about (modern) management strategies. He got a question along the lines "how do you assure things are done the way you want", to which he replied that he mostly doesn't care, that's the responsibility of his subordinates. Which provoked some smirks and snickering. In Poland, such manager is often perceived as weak. Also, bosses rarely ask subordinates for advice.

My comment: naturally, in Poland people love to insinuate they come from aristocratic lineage, and calling someone a villager is offensive, with varying degrees depending on the word used. Poland and Germany are the last 2 European countries where it's polite to address someone per "Pan" or "Sie" - a remnant of feudal relations. But in a society that was about 80% made of peasants it's just not possible that everyone has blue blood. Especially that the bulk of wars was fought by upper class, and this tradition lived on to WW1 and WW2. Peasants were reluctant to fight, it didn't matter to them who ruled because they would end up in forced labor anyway. Sure, there was mass mobilization / forced draft called

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pospolite_ruszenie

but does it make sense to kill your livestock like that? So anyway, on top of gentry forming up no more than 20% of the society, a large part of them died in the two World Wars, and plenty were even explicitly exterminated (for example mass graves in Katyń).

Another article in an openly leftist portal:
https://krytykapolityczna.pl/felietony/kaja-puto/praca-polsk...

it touches on the unsurprising fact that immigrant workers are treated worse in every country, and Polish employers have a particular superiority complex in respect to migrants from the East. Historical reasons.

There were numerous cases where illegal immigrants from the East had work accidents and employer would stop people from calling an ambulance, or in one case even she dropped him in a forest and he died. Poles are quite stingy when it comes to tipping waiters (because Poland was a poor country), and if you're a waiter with an Eastern accent you're playing Hard Mode.

I read few right-winged portals or articles, but I think they don't care, for them hierarchy is natural and they blame everyone around (Liberals, leftists, Germans, Jews, France&Britain for not sending military help at start of WW2, Ukrainians for driving poorly/stealing/assaulting people/stealing jobs, the list goes on and on)