Majority Are Quiet Quitting

Gallup released a poll on the State of the Global Workforce in 2023. The majority (roughly six out of ten) of employees are ‘quiet quitting. Regardless of whether they are quiet quitting or not, 51% are actively seeking new employment. That seems to contradict that worker engagement has hit a record. It is possible that both are true. Employee stress continues the pre-pandemic rise in stress, which can be related to management decisions. Dis-affected employees tend to know what they want changed. Pay is obvious but engagement and culture are two of the other major factors. This dissatisfaction is occurring as there is a surge in job opportunities.

Each of these trends alone make news, but their intertwined nature affecting such a large portion of the workforce could be the start, or continuation, of a redefinition in work and our interrelations with it and each other.