{"id":67668,"date":"2024-04-15T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T06:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.outsourceaccelerator.com\/?p=67668"},"modified":"2024-04-15T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T06:44:30","slug":"engagement-11-year-low-gallup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.outsourceaccelerator.com\/engagement-11-year-low-gallup\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee engagement hits 11-year low in U.S. \u2014 Gallup survey"},"content":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES \u2014 U.S. workforce engagement has declined to its lowest point in over a decade, with 4.8 million fewer employees feeling engaged in their roles as of early 2024, <\/span>according to a recent Gallup study<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The analytics firm found that only 30% of U.S. workers were “highly engaged” in the first quarter of 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The decline has been most notable among <\/span>remote<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>hybrid<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>younger workers<\/span><\/a>, especially those under 35 and from <\/span>Generation Z<\/span><\/a>. This group has reported a six-point decrease in feeling connected to their company’s culture and mission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Overall, the U.S. now has a ratio of 1.8 engaged employees for every one actively <\/span>disengaged<\/span><\/a>, a slip from the previous year’s ratio of 2.1-to-1.<\/span><\/p>\n “<\/span>Employee engagement<\/span><\/a> trends are significant because they link to many important performance outcomes crucial to organizational leaders such as productivity, employee retention, customer service, safety incidents, quality of work and profitability,” the report said.<\/span><\/p>\n