Employee Engagement Declining Globally; Europe Records Lowest Rates

While the global employee engagement rate stands at around 20 percent, the European continent has recorded the weakest employee engagement for the sixth consecutive year.

Employees report feeling less motivated, less connected, and less committed to their work.

The lowest employee engagement rates were observed in Croatia (7 percent), Poland (7 percent), France (8 percent), Switzerland (8 percent), Luxembourg (9 percent), Ireland (9 percent), and Austria (9 percent), followed by Spain (10 percent), the United Kingdom (10 percent), Germany (11 percent), and Italy (11 percent).

Conversely, the countries with the highest employee engagement rates are Albania (32 percent), Romania (31 percent), Sweden (25 percent), and Malta (25 percent).

Gallup data indicates that the general profile of the segment with the lowest employee engagement predominantly consists of individuals under the age of 35, those in non-managerial positions, and employees who lack even partial remote work opportunities.

Furthermore, 15 percent of employees state that they are not merely "not engaged" but are "actively disengaged." This signifies that individuals are consciously and intentionally distancing themselves psychologically from their jobs, teams, and employers—a phenomenon currently referred to as "quiet quitting."

Characterizing this decline in employee engagement as "alarming," the study noted: “This marks the first period in which global employee engagement has decreased for two consecutive years.”

Source: Euronews