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To expand on the headline: US employee engagement in 2024 was 31% which was tied with the lowest in the past decade (since 2014) but also higher than at any point in the preceding decade (2000 – 2013). Lowest engagement was 26% in 2000 and 2005. Peak engagement was 36% in 2020.

(Sample size was ~80,000 working adults. Sampling error was ±0.5 percentage points at a 95% confidence level.)

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So basically this number just goes up and down with economic cycles, we’re at a midpoint when you look at the last quarter century, and everyone in this thread declaring that it’s because of AI or COVID or how “corporations have no loyalty anymore!” (as if that’s changed much in the last few decades) are probably wrong. Got it.

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