In Morocco, employees are more actively looking to leave their jobs than in the rest of the world, revealed a study by website ReKrute and Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
The results show that 7 out of 10 executives are actively looking for a new job.
Nearly 70% of the total Moroccan workforce is actively looking for a job, and an additional 2% have already made the choice to leave, which is almost twice as much as the global average of 40%, said the study entitled “What Job Seekers Wish Employers Knew,” conducted across 140 countries.
“In Morocco as in the rest of the world, we are witnessing a strong tension on the labor market that leads to a profound change in the relationship between employees and companies. This fundamentally questions employer value propositions, recruitment and talent management processes, the managerial model and the very culture of companies,” BCG and Rekrute said in a statement.
The study conducted among 90,000 talents in 160 countries, including nearly 400 in Morocco, shows that in the case of Morocco, candidates are more volatile than in the rest of the world with only 1% of Moroccan executives who say they are loyal to their employer against 4% globally.
“More and more, Moroccan workers want to work to live, not live to work: 66% dream of a stable career with a good work-life balance. A rate that is well in line with the global trend (69%),” explains the study, stating that the salary has become the 1st motivating factor at work, as everywhere in the world.
“The results of this global survey that we last conducted in 2018 are, this year, particularly interesting. We note new specificities such as the fact that this is the 1st year that the expectations of Moroccan candidates are almost similar to those of the world while we used to have a few years gap. The COVID effect has been unanimous everywhere: the search for happiness and meaning are the key words of the candidates”, said Philippe Montant, General Manager of ReKrute, quoted in the release.
Montant also notes a “strong interest in salary as a motivating factor at work, which we had never seen in our 17 years of existence! It is now up to employers to be challenged: in their recruitment methods as well as in their ability to take into account the expectations of their potential future employees in order to attract and retain their teams,” he said.
According to the study, the predisposition of employees to leave their job (only 8% are loyal to their employer against 70% who are actively looking for another job) is explained by the search for “a more interesting position or with a higher level of seniority (52%) or to explore a new profession (29%)”.
This is a trend “to be taken very seriously by companies that need to pay more attention to employee retention,” says the same source.
every one is looking for dignity and good life through a good and stable job which is not the case in Morocco, except a minority of people.
I think that this very high percentage of Moroccan executives actively looking for a change has to do with the work culture prevailing in Morocco, which might not be providing people with much career development or progress prospects.
Also, I think, in some parts of it, it might be a direct result of nepotism, pushing these executives to look somewhere else for better and rewarding job opportunities after having been ignored.
It might, in fact, be related to a variety of interlinked reasons social, economic, and political, pushing these guys to make the move. The numbers this study reveals should be carefully looked at and not ignored because they might be underlying a much deeper and troubling reality.