Less than 20% of UK employees are actively engaged in their work*
This translates into 37% higher absenteeism, 18% lower productivity and 15% lower profitability.
This equates to around 34% of lost discretionary effort.
Another way to look at those numbers:
🐝You have 50 employees
🐝Average example salary of £23,000
🐝80% are not engaged
🐝That’s 40 of your employees
34% loss against 40 employees on £23k pa, is nearly £313,000 a year in associated costs of that disengagement.
And that doesn’t include attrition costs…
Employee engagement isn’t about creating “fun”.
It’s to engage your employees in your mission, vision, purpose and strategy.
That might 𝘣𝘦 fun. But it’s not the core driver or benefit.
It’s about creating a high-performing culture where everyone can contribute towards a purposeful organisation’s goals.
Or, it’s not and we can absorb that inefficiency cost, right?
*Source: Gallup State of the Workplace Report 2023
