LODZ, Poland — Not long ago, the only way a young Pole like Piotr Wegielewski could find a job worthy of his two master’s degrees would have been hopping on one of the budget flights from the airport near here to go to Western Europe.

Instead, Mr. Wegielewski, 29, found a job close to home in an industry that has become one of the largest employers in Poland: outsourcing. He is a project leader in data and system analysis for Infosys, the Indian outsourcing giant with a big office here that serves clients in Amsterdam, London and New York, among other business capitals.

Infosys, based in Bangalore, has its largest site outside India here. About 2,000 people work in a new office building overlooking a traffic circle named for Solidarity, the trade union movement that led Poland out of Communism.

“A lot of my colleagues left,” Mr. Wegielewski said in English. “I wanted to stay.”

In fact, Lodz, a former textile manufacturing center with a population of about 740,000, is just one of several Polish cities that have become service hubs for an international corporate clientele that values Poland’s well-educated and often multilingual work force.