Despite Surge of Quiet Quitting, Employee Engagement at work remains high: Report
Despite surge in quiet quitting, 52 percent of fully remote and onsite employees, were actively engaged. However, when it came to disengagement, the study found that 46% of remote workers felt alienated, compared to 38% of those working onsite.
Despite a Surge of Quiet Quitting, Employee Engagement at work remains high Bankrate research Report
The pandemic-caused transformative change continues to shape our work landscape as its effects and implications evolve. With remote and hybrid models gaining traction in a variety of industries, workers’ willingness to embrace these changes has varied.
The latest Gallup annual Global Workplace Study, released this month, indicated that only 23% of the global workforce reported a sense of thriving in their current positions, whereas this ratio jumps to 34% in the United States.
The study did, however, reveal a troubling number of employees who felt detached from their job obligations. 59% of employees resign quietly, whereas 18% quit loudly.
These numbers, on the other hand, are shared by 47% of workers in the United States who either plan to leave their current jobs or are actively looking for new ones.
According to the poll findings, low engagement can have enormous financial consequences, resulting in a significant toll on the global economy. According to the analysis, the impact is startling at $8.8 trillion, which is comparable to almost 9% of world GDP.
The percentage of actively engaged employees was 52% among both entirely remote and onsite personnel. Disengagement, on the other hand, was 46% for remote workers against 38% for those working onsite.
Though the degree of participation may look tiny, it is the highest level of worldwide engagement observed since Gallup’s survey began in 2009. These figures also represent a significant improvement over previous years, indicating a resurgence in engagement levels following a dip in 2020.
“People are a little bit more prone to drift to other employment, feeling less attached to the workplace,” according to Howard Liu, chair of the psychiatry department at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, to The Wall Street Journal.
However, there are still supporters of remote employment who genuinely appreciate this way of life. According to a Cisco 2022 poll of 28,000 full-time employees around the world, 78.9% of remote and hybrid workers stated that this move had improved their work-life balance.
Furthermore, many people can profit financially from remote work. According to Bankrate research conducted in 2021 with approximately 2,700 Americans, 38% of remote employees said it had a favorable impact on their financial status. Notably, for millennials, this ratio jumped dramatically to 60%.
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