From trends in quitting to surveys of public sentiment, it’s become abundantly clear that employee disengagement in the United States is on the rise. American workers are unhappy at work, but more often than not they take a personal approach to addressing what is actually a structural problem.
Recent Gallup surveys show that after a long period of trending up, employee engagement in the U.S. saw its first decline in a decade in 2021 and 2022. Phrases like “quiet quitting” and “Great Resignation” have grabbed headlines. While the COVID-19 pandemic certainly contributed, these trends represent a broader backlash against the endless cycle of striving for more without reliable rewards and the toll that cycle takes on one’s family relationships and personal well-being.
Everyone — employers and employees — has gotten so used to doing more with less that they are struggling to recognize what is happening.
Employers squeeze every bit of effort and time out of their employees that they can get away with because the rules of the game are set up to allow it. Employees often play a willing role in the process because hustling to do and be better is the only way they know how to hedge their bets in a system that often feels like a game of chance. Economic insecurity is widespread — among more and less educated workers alike — and it benefits a mostly absent, invisible owner class whose wealth has skyrocketed over the last decade.
This drag on shared growth and prosperity is rooted in...
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