I’ve always felt that an engaged workforce is the holy grail of business leaders and HR alike. Organizations in the US have spent almost USD 720 million a year on measuring employee engagement. With all this investment you would expect engagement levels to go through the roof. Think again!
Gallup, the global pollster, recently published their 2015 US engagement numbers and according to them the percentage of US workers who were considered engaged in their jobs averaged 32%. The majority (50.8%) of employees were “not engaged,” while another 17.2% were “actively disengaged”. It’s safe to say close to 70% of the US workforce is sitting on the fence (and the numbers for other regions in the world are not much different).
