Dwindling economy: Make operating environment conducive for your workers, expert charges business owners
By Temitope Adebayo
The Founder of Exambeta, an Edtech startup, Abiodun Sijuade, has advised school owners, Chief Executives (CEOs) and business heads not to make the work environment and most especially school environment a toxic one for their staff amidst the current economic situation in the country.
Sijuade, who is also the Co-Founder of Betaprep Africa, gave this advice at the weekend, during an interaction with the newsmen in Abeokuta, the state capital of Ogun State.
He urged owners of various private educational and training institutions, CEOs and founders of Edtech companies, and general business heads to do all in their might to make sure that the working environment is a safe and healthy one for their staff and people working with them.
According to him, not forgetting that we are at a very crucial stage where the country’s economy is experiencing a hard time, which has resulted in a hike in transportation costs and the prices of goods and commodities.
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“As much as the Government is working so hard to provide various palliatives to cushion the effect on the general public, all schools and business owners too can replicate the same in their capacity to staff working for them.
“Truly, all businesses are at a stage of making critical decisions for business survival such as letting go of people, so that their business can survive without leading to mass unemployment in real time.”
He, however, advised staffers across different sectors of the economy, particularly, in the educational sector to upskill themselves so that they can be more productive and valuable.
The Exambeta CEO, also, advised the general public to try as much as possible to cut down unnecessary expenses at this present time of fuel subsidy removal to reduce the hardship on survival.
He, thereafter, pleaded to the government of Ogun State to fulfill all palliative promises made to the vulnerable citizens of the state and to set up various models that would allow the survival of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the state, to enable the sub sector of the economy contributes a lot to the growth of the state.
“This would surely further develop the state, while positioning it as a pacesetter for other states to emulate.”
On what Exambeta is doing as a brand, Sijuade, noted that the firm has been providing international admission test registrations and preparation services to Nigerians with its physical prep centres over the past four years.
“At the moment, working on introducing the ‘Betaprep-Africa’, an EDTech Mobile App by leveraging world-class teaching, media, and technology to create high quality, affordable and on-demand preparation services for standardized tests candidates and overseas admissions prospects across Africa”, he explained.
