of employees worldwide were engaged at work in 2025.
Gallup defines engagement as employees' psychological attachment to their work, team, and employer.
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Last updated July 18, 2026
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These figures bring together current global engagement data with U.S. workforce-tenure and workplace-stress data. They are useful context for leadership conversations, planning sessions, articles, and presentations.
Every number links to its original source and identifies the period it describes. Different studies measure different populations, so the page does not treat any one figure as a diagnosis for an individual team.
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was Gallup's estimate of global productivity lost to low engagement in 2025.
Gallup places that estimate at roughly 9% of global GDP.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace: 2026 ↗2026 report; 2025 estimateof managers worldwide were engaged at work in 2025.
Manager engagement fell five percentage points from 2024 to 2025 in Gallup's global data.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace: 2026 ↗2026 report; 2025 dataof employees globally experienced stress a lot of the previous day in 2025.
The figure is a global employee measure and should not be treated as a company-specific score.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace global data ↗2026 report; 2025 dataof employees worldwide were thriving in 2025.
Gallup reported a one-point increase from 2024, following three years without improvement.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace: 2026 ↗2026 report; 2025 datawas the median tenure with a current employer for U.S. wage and salary workers.
The figure was recorded in January 2024 and was the lowest median tenure since January 2002.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employee Tenure in 2024 ↗September 26, 2024of U.S. wage and salary workers had been with their current employer for a year or less.
This January 2024 measure includes new hires, people who changed employers, and workers who found a job after a job loss.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employee Tenure in 2024 ↗September 26, 2024was the median tenure for U.S. private-sector workers.
Private-sector tenure was lower than the 6.2-year median reported for public-sector workers.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employee Tenure in 2024 ↗September 26, 2024of U.S. workers surveyed described work as a significant source of stress.
OSHA cites this finding consistently across the 2019-2021 survey years.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Workplace Stress ↗2019-2021 survey data cited by OSHA03SOURCE
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