{"id":16569,"date":"2022-06-27T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/2022\/06\/27\/north-american-workers-report-highest-engagement-levels-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T10:55:17","slug":"north-american-workers-report-highest-engagement-levels-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/2022\/06\/27\/north-american-workers-report-highest-engagement-levels-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"North American workers report highest engagement levels in the world "},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gallup’s latest\u202f State of the Global Workplace Report<\/em> finds that, despite more than two years of the pandemic, US and Canadian workers seemed to rebound in 2021. Employees reported higher life evaluations than the previous year and declines across several negative emotions. In 2021, 33% of US and Canadian employees were engaged at work and 60% were thriving in their well-being, compared to the rest of the world where 21% were engaged and 33% were thriving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gallup research has consistently found that employee engagement is a significant driver of organisational success. Businesses and organisations with high employee engagement achieve higher productivity, better customer relationships, lower turnover and higher profitability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Globally, employee engagement and well-being remain very low and it is holding back enormous growth potential. Gallup estimates that low employee engagement costs the global economy\u202fUS$7.8 trillion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pandemic years have been marked by a global stagnation in engagement; however, the US and\u202fCanada\u202fregion remain the most engaged in the world, while\u202fEurope\u202fand MENA have the lowest engagement. Remarkably,\u202fSouth Asia\u202fsaw the strongest growth in engagement \u2013 an increase of 9% \u2013 even as the region saw declines across other measures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The job market also seems to have recovered. Just under half of the currently employed employees (45%) globally said now is a good time to find a job, up slightly from last year but less than the record 55% in 2019. Global job opportunities had been rising steadily in the decade before the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“While, as a region, the US and\u202fCanada\u202fhave significantly more engaged and thriving employees in comparison with the global workforce, the US and Canadian employees report higher daily worry and stress than is the case globally,\u201d said\u202fJim Harter, Gallup’s Chief Workplace Scientist. \u201cThe US and\u202fCanada\u202falso have some significant differences between them. Employees in the US report a higher percentage of engaged employees and Canadian employees, while less engaged, are more likely to be thriving in their overall lives. Engagement at work and overall wellbeing are both important to reduce the chance of burnout.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global employee stress reached another all-time high in 2021 at 44%, driven mostly by increased stress in\u202fSouth Asia\u202fand\u202fEast Asia. Like daily worry, stress has been rising for employees for a decade, with a notable increase during the pandemic. The most stressed regions of the world include\u202fEast Asia\u202f(55%),\u202fLatin America\u202f(50%) and the US and\u202fCanada\u202f(50%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generally, employed women and employees under 40 report higher levels of stress. Working women in\u202fLatin America\u202fand the US report some of the highest levels of stress in the world \u2014 60% in\u202fLatin America\u202fand 54% in the US and\u202fCanada. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gallup’s latest\u202f State of the Global Workplace Report finds that, despite more than two years of the pandemic, US and Canadian workers seemed to rebound in 2021. Employees reported higher life evaluations than the previous year and declines across several negative emotions. In 2021, 33% of US and Canadian employees were engaged at work and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":16577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034,513,37,43,514],"tags":[2955,3403,1032,1819,3404],"class_list":["post-16569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-research","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-employee-engagement","tag-gallup","tag-north-america","tag-research","tag-state-of-the-global-workplace-report"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17201,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16569\/revisions\/17201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/north-america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}