A new Gallup poll released Tuesday revealed that workers around the world are historically stressed, disengaged with their work and increasingly fighting with their bosses. Gallup’s “State of the Global Workplace 2023” examined how “employees feel about their work and their lives, an important predictor of organizational resilience and performance.” Survey results revealed that 59% of workers are “quiet quitting,” i.e.
About 44% of employees surveyed said they experienced “a lot” of stress at work, which matches its 2021 survey results and is continuing a “trend of elevated stress that began almost a decade earlier.” What’s contributing to that stress isn’t revealed, since Gallup doesn’t ask — but the report hypothesizes that internal factors, including work itself and low engagement, plus external factors, such as inflation, are pushing stress levels higher.