Gallup Global Survey Finds 77% Disengaged From Their Work, 58% Struggling, and 41% Stressed
On June 12th, Gallup published its 2024 edition of their “State of the Global Workplace: The Voice of the World’s Employees.”
Headlining “5. What Is the Landscape of the World’s Workplace?” their more than 140-nation-surveys report that, to the question “Did you experience the following feelings A LOT OF THE DAY yesterday? How about stress?”, 41% of respondents said Yes.
Gallup’s figures for “Struggling” and for “Engaged in their work” were each calculated from the respondent’s answers to a group of questions, instead of to one question. “Struggling” was defined by Gallup as respondents who were neither “Thriving” nor “Suffering.”
The 77% who were “Disengaged” consists of 62% who were “Not Engaged” and 15% who were “Actively Disengaged.” The “Actively Disengaged” were “workers who actively oppose their employer’s goals.” The merely “Not Engaged” did not.
An interesting finding about “stress” was that managers report themselves to experience stress much more than their workers report themselves to experience stress. Apparently, managerial jobs are exceptionally str
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