Employee engagement levels keep trending downward. In 2022, Gallup noted that 18% of workers were actively disengaged. The ratio of engaged to actively unengaged employees—at 1.8-to-1—is the lowest its been in a decade. These findings indicate a deep disconnect between what workers want and what they’re getting from their employers.
Pew Research reporting on why employees resigned from positions in 2021 supports that hypothesis. What Pew found was that 63% of people left jobs where they hit a perceived career ceiling. In other words, they saw no avenues of career mobility. Therefore, they simply went somewhere else, ostensibly to find their personally rewarding “pot of gold.”
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