Do you know real cost of Employee Disengagement?

According to Gallup, employee engagement isn’t binary. There are actually three classifications; engaged, not engaged, and actively disengaged. Engaged employees are easy to spot as are the miserable, dissident, counter-culture folks who are actively disengaged.  The silent majority who are not engaged make up over 50% of the American workforce, and are adept at blending in with the rest of the herd.

What is employee engagement?

Gallup defines engaged employees as those who are involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace. Gallup categorizes workers as engaged, not engaged or actively disengaged based on their responses to key workplace elements.

• Engaged: Employees are highly involved in and enthusiastic about their work and workplace. They are psychological “owners,” drive performance and innovation, and move the organization forward.

• Not engaged: Employees are psychologically unattached to their work and company. Because their engagement needs are not being fully met, they’re putting time — but not energy or passion — into their work.They Have wast time on other work or Social site.

• Actively disengaged: Employees aren’t just unhappy at work — they are resentful that their needs aren’t being met and are acting out their unhappiness. Every day, these workers potentially undermine what their engaged coworkers accomplish.& Drag Down overall company performance.

Cost of Disengagement :

This means employees are unhappy and acting out that unhappiness at work in the form of tardiness, missed workdays, and decreased productivity. In fact, Gallup has estimated that a disengaged employee costs an organization approximately $3,400 for every $10,000 of salary, or 34%. Yikes!

• Nearly 70% of all U.S. workers don’t like their job.

• Actively disengaged employees cost the U.S. $483 billion to $605 billion each year in lost productivity.

     

That, according to the stats, 70 percent of all employees are disengaged at work. They cost over half a Trillion Dollars a year in lost productivity. Furthermore, Survey statistics indicate.

• They take more sick days.
• Undermine other’s performance and give no extra effort.
• Complain constantly and have a negative impact on customer satisfaction.
• Miss deadlines and post poor sales results
• Drag down the organization’s overall bottom line.

The High Cost of Poor Leadership:

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