{"id":204548,"date":"2017-10-12T09:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=204548"},"modified":"2017-10-12T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T07:34:28","slug":"how-much-the-average-south-african-works-in-a-week-compared-to-the-rest-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/204548\/how-much-the-average-south-african-works-in-a-week-compared-to-the-rest-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How much the average South African works in a week compared to the rest of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

International workforce company, the ManpowerGroup, has released its latest Total Workforce Index.<\/p>\n

The index\u00a0uses a proprietary algorithm to measure the relative ease of sourcing, hiring and retaining a workforce in competing labor markets around the world.<\/p>\n

It does this by compiling\u00a0more than 90 key factors which relate to the availability, cost efficiency, regulation and productivity of the workforce of each country.<\/p>\n

South Africa ranked 24th out of the total ranking of 75 countries internationally, and 14th in a ranking of\u00a0European, Middle East, and African countries. It ranked highly for cost efficiency and regulation, but lost points due to poor market maturity and availability of skilled labour.<\/p>\n

The report also found that the country’s workforce still has a number of hurdles to overcome to be more competitive, globally, with just\u00a050% of the workforce being proficient in English, and only 27.6% considered to be white collar or “highly skilled”.<\/p>\n

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It further found that the average South African worker works exactly 9 hours a day<\/strong> – just under an hour more than other African, European and Middle-Eastern (EMEA) countries.<\/p>\n

This equates to an average work week of 45 hours<\/strong> for South Africans, compared to 41.6 hours in EMEA countries.<\/p>\n

This means that while the stereotypical 9:00 – 17:00 work day holds true globally, South Africans are being encouraged to come in earlier and leave later, the report found.<\/p>\n

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South Africans are also cheaper to pay than their EMEA counterparts, with an average monthly wage of $1,353 (R18,230), compared to the regional EMEMA average of $1,904 (R25,654) and the global average of $1,979 (R26,665).<\/p>\n

Other major differences between South Africa’s workforce and other countries include:<\/p>\n