A new study has revealed the considerable burden on data compliance workers in the UK.
Skillcast, a company that teaches compliance online, crunched the numbers to determine how much personal data one compliance worker has to deal with.
The results are shocking: on average, one compliance worker has to look after the data of a whopping 14,315 people and businesses. That’s more than the population of some towns.
They got this figure by adding up each company’s employees, customers, and clients.
But, compliance workers make up only three per cent of the total staff in FTSE companies. That’s according to LinkedIn data, so it must be true.
With an average of 8,000,000 customers and 11,427 workers across the companies in the study, it’s clear that compliance workers are in short supply and high demand.
Skillcast boss Vivek Dodd said: “As businesses keep struggling with data protection and compliance rules, our research shows how important compliance workers are for keeping everyone’s data safe and secure. The data we found should make businesses think twice about their compliance teams and give them more support.”
