b'Roughly 1 in 2 are Engaged at work,continuing a downward trend.Alarms should be sounding in most How Do You Feel atworkplaces. This means that half of the Work Right Now?workforce lacks the commitment and 9%willingness to give their best at work. They arenot leaning into their responsibilities or giving 53%discretionary effort, which hurts theorganization and the others who work there. Half of the workforcelacks the commitment 38%Somewhatand willingness to give Engaged Engagedtheir best at work. DisengagedNew Employees: Dimming LightIts not just the long-time veterans who are cause for concern, either. The datashows this is a much more widespread problem, impacting even the newest on theteam. The honeymoon phase that once fueledenthusiasm for a new job appears to befading fast. Half of employees who havebeen in their roles for fewer than sixmonths already report feeling onlysomewhat engaged, signaling atroubling shift in early employeeexperience.This decline in engagement puts evenmore at risk than productivity, revenue,and product innovation. It also placesHalf of brand-new tremendous pressure on the engagedemployees are only employees who have to take on anincreasing workload to compensate forsomewhat their lagging coworkers, greatly increasingengaged. their risk of burnout.07 ENGAGE 2025'