A poll shows that most workers are not engaged at work.
According to Gallup’s new 142-country study on the State of the Global Workplace, only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged at work. More precisely, only about one in eight workers — roughly 180 million employees in the countries studied — are psychologically committed to their jobs and likely to be making positive contributions to their organizations.
The bulk of employees worldwide — 63% — are “not engaged,” a Gallup reporter wrote. “They lack motivation and are less likely to invest discretionary effort in organizational goals or outcomes. And 24% are ‘actively disengaged,’ indicating they are unhappy and unproductive at work and liable to spread negativity to coworkers. In rough numbers, this translates into 900 million not engaged and 340 million actively disengaged workers around the globe.”
The United State and Canada have the highest proportion of engaged workers, at 29%.
