World Day for Safety and Health at Work

The Shrinking Perk of Being a Manager. Since 2022, manager engagement has dropped by nine points. Individual contributor engagement also declined but has had a slight rebound. The largest year-over-year drop in manager engagement occurred between 2024 and 2025, when it declined by five points from 27% to 22%. In short, managers used to enjoy an “engagement premium” at work , but they are increasingly only as engaged as those they lead. South Asia’s decline in manager engagement suggests organizational flattening may be a factor. In 2025, South Asia (primarily India) experienced an eight-point decline in manager engagement, the largest decline of any region. At the same time, the percentage of managers in South Asia also declined, suggesting that employers are cutting management roles. Top IT firms add just 17 staff in nine months, hiring nearly freezes. Some evidence suggests that in 2025, India’s IT sector saw a substantial slowdown in hiring, along with cuts to mid-level and senio...

  In 2025, global employee engagement declined for a second year to its lowest level since 2020. Lower engagement among managers accounts for most of the recent downturn in employee engagement. Global employee perceptions of the job market improved in 2025, though still below their 2019 peak. In 2025, global employee wellbeing improved for the first time in three years. Download Full Report The Employee Engagement Slump Continues According to Gallup research,  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 f...

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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 ...