According to Gallup’s 2018 survey about employee engagement, 34% of employees classify themselves as ‘actively engaged’ - the highest percentage ever in the history of conducting this employee engagement survey. But 13% list themselves as ‘actively disengaged’, and an additional 52% list themselves as ‘not engaged’ - meaning that, on average, 65% of your workforce is either not happy or is just phoning it in at work.
This manifests itself in a variety of ways in the office - decreased productivity, lack of interest in collaboration, impact on your company culture, employee churn, an attitude of doing the bare minimum and then clocking out - which can have a significant financial impact. In fact, Gallup states that:
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According to Gallup, there are three types of employees when it comes to engagement: engaged, not engaged, and actively disengaged employees. Engaged employees are easy to identify, they have good numbers, a positive attitude, etc. Not engaged employees cover around 50% of the workforce, and are usually silent, with steady performance, staying away from the spotlight for either positive or negative reasons. And the actively disengaged employees show the most obvious signs like absenteeism, bad attitude, low energy, missing deadlines, frequent use of social media, etc.
The sooner you acknowledge the importance of employee engagement and the areas where improvement is needed, the better. Disengaged employees can not only cost you money, but their unhappiness can spread, causing a bigger loss in productivity and, of course, money.
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Every company struggles with disengaged employees, but not every manager knows how low or high employee engagement is within their team. Look beyond the obvious signs and start paying attention to the little details that will let you know when an employee is feeling unmotivated so you can do something before they become fully disengaged.
In this article, we talk about 5 signs of Disengaged Employees.