Gallup reported that the employee engagement mid-year 2025 was at 32 percent. Up from the all time low in 2024 of 30%. Yet, at 32% less than one third of the employees are engaged and working to ensure a profitable business. Gallup estimates the level of employee disengagement is approximatley $2 trillion dollars in lost productivity.
As noted in a Harvard Business Review article by Lindsey McGregor and Neel Doshi titled “How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation”, why we work determines how well we work. McGregor and Doshi posits that play (how their work motivates them), purpose (how what they do affects others) and potential (your work helps your growth) maximize good motives. When we are motivated by what we do, the impact we have on those around us, and we have potential in our work place to increase our value and impact, we become actively engaged in our company.
Focus on understand people that we work with , specifically in the areas of play, purpose and potential. As we increase understanding in these three areas, we will find an increase in work motivation and a correlative increase in employee engagement.
Tag someone struggling to lead others and let’s change the $2 trillion dollar loss to a gain.
