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DPA SA is a South African company specialising in the migration of paper-based business processes to digital business processes. Our team’s many years of experience in traditional document management and document imaging has evolved into an ability to effectively migrate and advance processes with the least amount of disruption, to yield more efficient and effective ways of work with numerous business benefits.
Our approach to digital process automation reflects in the way we work, how our products are built and the way we service our clients.
The DPA company brand represents flexibility, innovation, and improvement. We think out-of-the-box, which has enabled us to continuously grow and expand in the market. Our goal is to help you become better.
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THE FUTURE OF WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA
Studies suggest that while digitisation will disrupt the world of work, overall, it will create more jobs than it destroys. But the new technology-enabled jobs will require higher skills levels than most of the jobs displaced. Unless a higher percentage of South Africa’s graduates take technology-related jobs, much of that demand will go unmet—resulting in a serious skill shortfall across the economy.
The advance of technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced robotics will have a far-reaching impact on South Africa’s workplaces. Although digitisation will be disruptive, it has the potential to raise productivity and operational efficiency in businesses across sectors, to deliver better outcomes for both customers and citizens, and to create millions of high-quality jobs.
These are the findings of a new McKinsey paper, The future of work in South Africa: Digitisation, productivity, and job creation, which shows that the accelerated adoption of digital technologies could triple South Africa’s productivity growth, more than double growth in per capita income, and add more than a percentage point to South Africa’s real GDP growth rate over the next decade. It could also result in a net gain of 1.2 million jobs by 2030. A large proportion of those jobs would go to women, and digitisation could trigger a breakthrough in women’s empowerment.
The paper also shows that the accelerated adoption of technology could benefit several of South Africa’s core industries significantly if businesses act with sufficient speed and determination. In mining, it has the potential to increase margins by 15 percent. In retail, it could raise margins by two percentage points, reduce costs, and enhance the customer experience. In banking, digitization can cut cost-to-income ratios by ten percentage points, on average, by 2030.
The implication is clear. South African decision makers, across sectors, must move boldly to ensure that reskilling is sufficient to help reabsorb workers into the workforce. They also need to strengthen the education system to generate technology-related and life skills at sufficient scale. Only then will South Africa successfully manage the massive workforce transformation ahead. Indeed, these steps are essential if the country is to seize technology’s potential to unlock inclusive growth, improve lives, and reduce unacceptably high unemployment levels.