Study shows big shift in emigrating South Africans after lockdown Subscribe South Africans are significantly less willing to relocate to a new country than in 2018 according to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and CareerJunction. The study included almost 209,000 participants in 190 countries and 1,421 in South Africa, focusing on worker mobility and preferences. The findings show that the pandemic has had a major impact on people’s attitudes toward working abroad, reducing their interest generally and inclining them towards countries that have done the best job of containing the coronavirus. Only 59% of South Africans are willing to move to another country for work, which is down from a 72% willingness level in 2018.