Cape Town - South Africans are being overworked while companies struggle to fill a widening skills gap and retain staff, Deloitte’s 2015 Human Capital Trends Report finds.
The retention of skilled staff looms as a threat to businesses around the world as a premium is placed on people with the proper specialist skills required in a more sophisticated, fast moving workplace.
Leadership was highlighted as the top theme for South African and global businesses in the 2014 survey – but for the first time “culture and engagement” topped the list in the survey.