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Global Employee Engagement Drops for Only the Second Time in 12 Years, Costing the World's Economy US$438 Billion
No other worker category experienced as significant a decline in engagement as the world's managers. Two types of managers were particularly affected:
"Manager engagement affects team engagement, which affects productivity. Business performance — and ultimately GDP growth — is at risk if executive leaders do not address manager breakdown," said Jim Harter , Gallup's chief workplace scientist.
Gallup recommends three actions leaders can take to boost manager engagement:
Since 2011, region has had the highest engagement in the world. 2024 is the first time it has tied with another region — , which is at a new high.
Despite a three-percentage-point drop in engagement in 2024, is still ahead of the global average. The regional decline in engagement is driven by its most populous country, India , where engagement fell three points in the latest three-year rolling average.
For the fifth year in a row, workers' engagement is lower than in any other world region. The , and also continue to lag the global average.
recorded a new high in engagement (26%); meanwhile, Southeast Asia's latest 26% engagement rate is more than twice as high as what Gallup recorded for the region in 2011. Employee engagement in is also on the high end of the trend since 2012.
Over half of employees (51%) say it is a "good time" to find a job where they live, but this is down to the lowest point since 2021.
Of all world regions, employees are most optimistic about their local job markets in Australia and New Zealand , where 72% say it is a good time to find a job. New highs in job market optimism were recorded in Latin America and the Caribbean (58%), Europe (57%) and Post-Soviet Eurasia (53%).
Half of global employees (50%) are watching for or actively seeking a new job, slightly lower than figures recorded in 2022 and 2023.
The percentage of employees in their lives (33%) dropped for a consecutive year, falling to the lowest point since 2021.
Global employees' reports of are slightly lower than in recent years but remain elevated compared to pre-pandemic figures. Reports of experiencing daily are stable, while experiences of are on the high end of Gallup's trend since 2009. More than one in five employees report having experienced .
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