World Day for Safety and Health at Work

  In 2025, global employee wellbeing improved for the first time in three years. Leaders have higher life evaluations but worse days than those they lead. In psychology, wellbeing can be measured by examining the reflective self or the experiencing self. How people think about their lives does not always match how they experience them day to day. When comparing leaders, managers, project managers and individual contributors, higher levels of leadership report higher levels of engagement and wellbeing . At the same time, compared with individual contributors, leaders are substantially more likely to report experiencing a lot of stress (+7 points), anger (+12), sadness (+11) and loneliness (+10) the previous day. Leadership also offers little upside in terms of positive emotions: Leaders are less likely than individual contributors to say they smiled or laughed a lot the previous day and less likely than managers to report experiencing enjoyment. Although leadership can give i...

Global Engagement (% Engaged) In 2025, global employee engagement declined for a second year to its lowest level since 2020. The world’s employee engagement has dropped to 20% from its peak in 2022 of 23%, with a margin of error of less than ±0.1 pct. pt. Despite the recent downturn, employee engagement is eight percentage points higher than it was in Gallup's first measurement in 2009 and five points higher than it was a decade ago. Each percentage point accounts for approximately 21 million employees working for organizations. For millions of workers, the workplace has improved. That said, recent years are a cause for concern. This is the first time global engagement has dropped for two consecutive years. The largest drop was in South Asia (-5 points). No region of the world increased engagement in the past year. Last year, low engagement cost the world economy approximately $10 trillion in lost productivity, or 9% of GDP. Engagement measures the psychological attachment workers ...