According to Gallup’s global employment data, Kuwait ranked 3rd world wide with the highest population working full-time for an employer. Generally wealthier countries are more likely to have larger percentages of their population working for an employer, while poorer countries tend to have larger percentages of the population working for themselves. In Kuwait’s case considering the fact that it’s also difficult for an expat to work for themselves and the fact an expat can’t remain in Kuwait without a job is probably what’s pushing the employment percentage up. UAE who have a similar situation to Kuwait don’t rank far behind in 5th place. Check out the full list and details on this Gallup [Here]
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18 replies on “Kuwait 3rd highest population employed full-time worldwide”
Must be what makes Kuwait so productive.
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LOL!!!! Don’t think anyone got that! Hilarious
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I think this stat, like all stats, is taken way out of context.
Yes, in terms of “full time employment”, those are the stats. But to anyone who lives in Kuwait and knows how employment happens in the public sector, it is obvious that that number can’t be accurately compared to other countries that do not have similar employment and nationalization laws.
Full time employees with zero productivity. Yay Kuwait!
It’s not very accurate, because the people who get salaries from the government when they’ve been out of a job for a while, until they find a job, are considered employed, even though they are not.
since when?
since always…
The government knows this is an inflated number which is why it’s forcing private companies to hire more locals, in 10 years there will be no way to sustain the new entries into the workforce if they’re all going into useless government jobs. The alternative is to just make everyone unemployed which isn’t great either
how come there is so many unemployed then.
who is unemployed?
My youngest 2 kids aged 4 and 2 years.
On a serious note, people have a hard time finding a public sector job, then they get it and either end up being the minority that are productive or the majority that just sucks the country dry.
I wish low production individuals get fired.
I had a colleague who was of this minority you speak of, and was practically driven out of the public sector. She joined the bank I worked at, almost half the salary, and huge big work load, and she was very happy with it.
They have not taken disguised unemployment into consideration.
That’s only because you HAVE to be a full-time employee. No part time work.
Also in the US now a lot of employers will make you work the maximum amount of part time hours so that they don’t have to pay as many benefits. Like they’ll make you work 39 hours every week.
Or whatever the cutoff is. All I know is that some friends in service industry had their hours reduced because of new employee benefit laws that don’t apply to part timers.