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Employers have been fighting to retain their workers, but lingering workplace stressors are leaving them indebted with disengaged, checked-out talent.
The level of actively disengaged U.S. employees is the highest it has been in over 10 years, according to a 2022 report from Gallup. The current ratio of engaged employees to disengaged employees is 1.8 to 1 — down from 2.1 to 1 in 2021 and 2.6 to 1 in 2020. This lack of enthusiasm is creating what is being described as a “talent debt.”
Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio
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