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by deleted_account 525 days ago
This seems to be fueling everyone's confirmation bias. The Gallup poll[1] shows a four year decline since 2020. I mean, I don't know what would have happened in 2020 to precipitate this /s. Preceding that was a decade of improvement in employee engagement.

What's a little more interesting (and not at all mentioned in the Axios article) is there is a parallel increase in /active disengagement/. There's clearly a significant minority who consistently feels disconnected from work, but this is back on the rise.

We're also reading a summary of a summary of a Gallup poll by Jim Harter, Ph.D. who posted 5 months ago [2] that "U.S. Employee Engagement Inches Up Slightly After 11-Year Low" [3], so I'm not sure what conclusions to draw.

Unrelated to the links, DOE immediately stop as soon as they realize they're reading derivative commentary and immediately search for whatever source material is being referenced? Unless you have access to the survey information[4] everyone in this thread is already at least two degrees removed from the data (Jim Harter -> Emily Peck -> HN).

[1] https://www.gallup.com/workplace/654911/employee-engagement-...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jkharter_after-us-employee-en...

[3] https://www.gallup.com/workplace/647564/employee-engagement-...

[4] https://www.gallup.com/q12/

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It seems like covid let corporations do in 4 years what would normally take 20+. They usually have to slowly boil the frog, but with Covid they had a great excuse to take large actions without consequence. Layoffs, inflating prices, cutting perks are normally things that need to be eased into, but they all jumped on the covid/covid economy excuse to do these things overnight.