SAP Africa Rolls Out Social Sabbatical Programme

SAP announced that it has been listed in Triple Pundit’s Top 10 Employee Engagement Strategies for its Social Sabbatical programme, whereby SAP’s most promising employees  from across the globe  support underserved communities in South Africa, Brazil and India, with the aim of providing mentorship and helping solve those communities’ most pressing challenges.

According to an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey, sponsored by SAP, the world needs to create more than 500 million new jobs by 2020 to provide career opportunities for the unemployed as well as for young people who will be joining the workforce. The bulk of this challenge falls on countries in the developing world, including South Africa, Brazil and India.

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