There has been an increase in dissatisfaction of workers in Sub-Saharan Africa as workers experience greater levels of stress, anger, sadness, and loneliness after a day at work.
A Gallup Survey revealed base on global workplace that about 81% of workers in Sub- Sahara Africa are actively seeking for a new job or better opportunities.
About 16% of Kenya workers under the survey believe that they are striving in their current workplace.
It was also surveyed that about 20% of Nigerians and 32% of South Africa are also striving in their current work place.
Senegal has the highest percentage of workers in the continent who feel engaged and connected to their workplace, that figure standing at 40% – and regionally, Tanzania has the highest percentage with 31%.
“Over 75 per cent of the global employees are not fully committed or actively disengaged at work, and it’s costing the world economy a whopping US$8.9 trillion annually,” the Gallup report states.
Chad has the highest percentage of angry and sad workers, both figures standing at 43% and 62% respectively.
Liberia has the highest worker stress levels with 64% of its workforce under survey citing they felt psychologically drained by their work.
“About 34% of Kenyan workers under the survey experience stress, 22% citing anger, and another 23% reported feeling sad. The analytics company established that increasingly engaged work places, which sensitized team work and employee satisfaction, reported higher outcomes and less employee indifference.”
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