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The Mercury reports that the results of a recent global research study found that SA has the highest rate of employees who are open to leaving and actively planning to leave their current employment.
The research was conducted by marketing company DCMN Insights Team with a representative panel provided by Dynata. The online survey of 5,028 respondents in SA, France, Germany, the UK and the US was conducted between August and September 2018. The research identified what South African employees wanted and how employers could adapt to positively impact employee satisfaction. Of the five countries surveyed, only the US had a happier workforce than SA. Some 66% of South Africans were very happy or happy in their current workplace. This increased to 86% with those working for companies who have implemented New Work principles. But, although 66% of South African employees said they were happy or very happy in their workplace, only one out of five employees had no plans to leave their current workplace. Looking at what employees said they wanted from their employers, across all markets, flexible working hours were among the top items with nearly two-thirds of South African respondents seeing this as the most important change they wanted to see in the workplace. In reality, only 24% have flexible working hours and only 14% have full liberty to work from home.
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