MixWork Placement Data: Who We Place in Indonesia, and How They Stay

This page publishes the figures MixWork measures on its own placements in Indonesia, restated each quarter. They are first-party numbers about the people we place and how long they stay, not market statistics, and each one states how it is measured and what it does not claim. Use them, cite them, and hold us to them.

How each figure is measured

Twelve-month retention above 90%

Twelve-month retention across our placements runs above 90%, measured on our own placement data. We publish the figure as measured internally and do not break it out by role, seniority or client. It is stated as a floor rather than a point estimate because it is the number most likely to be quoted back to us, and we would rather be held to a figure we clear every quarter than to one we hit on average.

We do not print a market comparator beside it. The Indonesian and BPO attrition figures that circulate online trace to vendor blogs citing each other rather than to a primary study, and a first-party number next to an unsourced one would borrow credibility it has not earned. If you have your own attrition figure for offshore roles, compare against that; it is the only comparison that matters to your budget.

More than 80% from multinational or global-agency backgrounds

More than 80% of the people we place come from multinational or global-agency backgrounds. This is the qualifier that does the work in every other figure on the page: six years inside a multinational is six years of international-standard process, reporting and stakeholder communication, and it is why a MixWork hire slots into a foreign team without a translation layer. It is also the basis of our English claim below.

Around six years of professional experience

The professionals we place average around six years of professional experience and are typically in their late twenties. Six years at 28 is a normal career timeline anywhere, so we make no claim that Indonesian professionals reach a given level younger than peers elsewhere. The argument is composition and cost: mid-career people, past the training phase and before management overhead, who deliver independently, at Jakarta salaries rather than Singapore or Sydney ones.

Educated at Indonesia’s leading universities

The people we place are typically graduates of Indonesia’s top-ranked universities. In the QS World University Rankings 2027, released 18 June 2026, Universitas Indonesia is ranked 191 in the world, Universitas Gadjah Mada 206, Universitas Airlangga 276, Institut Teknologi Bandung 287, IPB University 419, Universitas Padjadjaran 496, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember 497, Universitas Brawijaya 616 and Universitas Diponegoro 662. The table below lists them with ranks; we re-verify the ranking year at each quarterly restatement.

English: near-native among the professionals we place

English proficiency among Jakarta’s professional class is very high, and near-native among the professionals MixWork places. The evidence is behavioural rather than a test score: they write to clients, present to stakeholders and run meetings without an intermediary, and nobody reviews their emails before they go out. The claim is scoped to the screened professional cohort we place and says nothing about the general population, which is a different question answered by different data.

Shortlist as fast as 24 hours; start in as little as two weeks

On MixWork placements a first shortlist arrives as fast as 24 hours for junior and mid-level roles and 48 hours for senior and director roles, and a hire can start as little as two weeks after the brief when the candidate is available. Both are stated as best cases we regularly reach, not as service levels. The usual constraint is the employee’s notice period at their current employer: the 30-day resignation notice under Government Regulation No. 35 of 2021 stretches a typical start to four to six weeks.

AI tools in daily use on every placement

Every MixWork placement works with AI tools daily as standard, across every function from marketing to engineering, and we run regular professional learning sessions on the current tooling and on the judgment to orchestrate it rather than defer to it. The national context corroborates the practice: Microsoft’s Work Trend Index 2026 (30 June 2026) found that 33% of Indonesian workers are advanced AI users versus 16% globally, that 62% name critical thinking as the skill growing most in importance versus 46% globally, and that 72% of Indonesian AI users say they can now produce work they could not a year ago versus 58% globally. Our observation is about our own placements; the national figures are Microsoft’s.

Engineering placements: what the profiles look like

Engineering is the largest single group of enquiries we receive, so the table above lists illustrative profiles from actual MixWork engineering placements by role, years and background: a QA engineer with eight years, a React developer with seven years including two at a global technology company, an AI-workflow developer, a security specialist with twelve years, and an engineering project manager with ten. The site-wide figures on this page apply across all placements; we have not yet published an engineering-only cut of the retention or pedigree figures and will add one when it is measured. Every engineer is employed full-time on a PKWTT contract and works with AI tools daily. The vetting standard we apply to engineering searches is published on the IT talent hub.

What we do not publish, and why

• Role salary bands. Indonesian professional pay reprices faster than any published band can follow, so a figure printed here would mislead within months. We quote live, all-in figures for a specific role and stack on a call, and we publish the durable arithmetic instead: the statutory employer contributions, THR and income-tax administration that sit on top of any salary. See the cost to hire employees in Indonesia.

• Offer-acceptance rates and tenure distributions beyond the twelve-month retention figure. These are measured internally and not released.

• Client names or per-client figures without the client’s permission. The case studies carry the engagements we are allowed to describe.

How to cite these figures

Cite as: MixWork placement data, Q3 2026, mixwork.co/placement-data, with the quarter stamp. Each figure is restated on this page every quarter and every change is logged below, so a citation with the quarter stamp can always be checked against what was published at the time. Where a figure is a first-party observation about our own placements, say so; where we quote a third party, we have named it and dated it.

Changelog

• 12 September 2026: first publication, quarter stamp Q3 2026. Figures: twelve-month retention above 90%; more than 80% ex-MNC; around six years’ average experience; shortlist as fast as 24 hours (junior and mid-level) and 48 hours (senior and director); start in as little as two weeks; AI tools in daily use on every placement. University ranks from QS World University Rankings 2027 (18 June 2026); national AI-adoption context from Microsoft Work Trend Index 2026 (30 June 2026).

• 12 September 2026 (later the same day): engineering placement profiles table and section added. No figure changed.

First-party figures on this page are measured on MixWork’s own placement data and are stated as observations about those placements, not as guarantees for any individual engagement. Third-party figures are attributed and dated. Statutory references are general information, not legal advice; confirm current requirements with qualified Indonesian legal counsel.