U.S. Employee Engagement Drops for First Time in a Decade

Feb 4, 2022, 2:51 PM

(From SHRM) For the first year in more than a decade, the percentage of engaged workers in the U.S. declined in 2021. According to Gallup, only 34% of the 57,022 full- and part-time employees surveyed by the analytics and consulting firm reported feeling engaged at work, while 16% said they were actively disengaged in their work and workplace. Gallup research found that frequent manager-employee conversations played a key role in employees' sense of engagement: In early 2020, nearly half of employees (49%) strongly agreed that their supervisor keeps them informed about what is going on in the organization. This figure has since slipped to 36%.

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