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2 months ago | 
gallup.com | Jim Harter |Ryan Pendell
Low employee engagement is holding back global worker productivity, according to Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace report.
Global employee engagement and employee wellbeing have generally risen over the past decade. But both fell in 2024, which has implications for corporate productivity, innovation and performance.
Here’s what leaders need to know from Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace report:
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
freedomsphoenix.com | Jim Harter |Donna Hancock
By Jim Harter of Gallup
Full-time employees in the U.S. have been working fewer hours per week for the past five years. What are the implications for employees and their organizations? And what's driving the trend?
Gallup finds that average hours worked have dropped progressively since 2019 when U.S. employees reported working an average of 44.1 hours. In 2024, they work 42.9 hours per week.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
conservativeangle.com | Jim Harter |Tyler Durden
Why Americans Are Working LessBy Jim Harter of GallupFull-time employees in the U.S. have been working fewer hours per week for the past five years. What are the implications for employees and their organizations? And what’s driving the trend? Gallup finds that average hours worked have dropped progressively since 2019 when U.S. employees reported working an average of 44.1 hours. In 2024, they work 42.9 hours per week.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
gallup.com | Jim Harter
Results for the quarterly Gallup workforce studies (noted as “WF QX” in footnotes) reflect results from the Gallup Panel. Other recent data obtained before 2022 also come from the Gallup Panel, including its COVID-19 Panel studies; however, some older trend data come from other sources. Details may be provided upon request.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
gallup.com | Jim Harter |Ben Wigert
In March 2020, the workplace changed forever.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced people to stay home with little warning, while businesses quickly activated continuity plans and emergency public health protocols took effect. Employees adopted new ways of working as the pandemic continued, and waves of people changed jobs amid The Great Resignation. Customer expectations also evolved, affecting how entire industries operate.
Throughout the pandemic, Gallup measured how people’s work and lives changed.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
gallup.com | Jim Harter
Results for this Gallup poll are based on self-administered web surveys conducted throughout 2024, with a random sample of 79,087 adults who are aged 18 and older, working full time or part time for organizations in the United States, and members of the Gallup Panel. For results based on this sample, the margin of sampling error is ±0.5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. Gallup uses probability-based, random sampling methods to recruit its panel members.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
gallup.com | Jim Harter
"It's the manager, stupid." In a1998 article with this title, The Economist wrote, “It is an article of faith among management gurus that good management is largely the preserve of ‘great’ or ‘excellent’ companies that are marked out by their unique corporate cultures … Now doubt has been cast on the idea of great companies by an enormous statistical survey …” The study was one of the first iterations of Gallup’s ongoing meta-analysis of workplace culture and business performance, which...
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
gallup.com | Jim Harter
The hard job of managing people has gotten even harder in recent years.
New demands for worker flexibility in the remote and hybrid workplace and increased risk of employee mental health problems add to the already difficult job of managing. In 2023, Gallup found one in five employees reported feeling loneliness, anger, or sadness during a lot of the previous day, and four in 10 felt a lot of stress.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
gallup.com | Jim Harter
Worldwide, employees are as engaged at work now as they were the year prior. Notably, engagement is driven more by having great managers at the business-unit level than by macroeconomic factors such as countries’ labor policies and the vibrancy of their job markets.
The percentage of engaged employees globally -- those who feel involved in and enthusiastic about their work -- remains at 23%, matching the record high recorded in 2022, according to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
gallup.com | Jim Harter
Results for this Gallup poll are based on self-administered web surveys conducted each quarter. Q1 2024 surveys were conducted in February 2024, with a random sample of 18,708 adults who are aged 18 and older, working full time or part time for organizations in the United States, and members of the Gallup Panel. For results based on this sample, the margin of sampling error is ±1.1 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
