Figure 3.20: “During the COVID-19 outbreak, I realized that in my company we did not need as many employees as we had before the outbreak”
We further push our respondents if they expect a reduction of manpower after COVID-19 pandemic: “After the COVID-19 outbreak, I expect that there will be a reduction in the capacity of manpower of my company”
Figure 3.21: “After the COVID-19 outbreak, I expect that there will be a reduction in the capacity of manpower of my company”
Here we see right away that 43,3% of respondents either disagree or strongly disagree with the statement and only 23,6% either agree or strongly agree with it. This indicates there is a limited expectation of 23,6% manpower reduction because of the pandemic.
Since the pandemic of COVID-19 changed a lot of work habits, we proceeded to track what happened to the human element which was at the heart of these changes studying it from several angles.
Remote Working
A large majority of African SMEs (77,2%) agreed on“During the COVID-19 outbreak, we had to place some of our personnel on remote working” as seen in the below chart.
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