The data for Gallup’s report was collected in 2023 and 128,278 working adults in over 160 countries were surveyed. In addition, only 10% of UK workers were found to be feeling engaged with their jobs, 40% of employees were found to be experiencing daily stress and 27% reported feeling daily sadness – the second highest across all European countries. Another 20% of workers reported feeling daily anger.

By comparison, 23% of employees globally reported feeling engaged at work and 33% of US workers said they were engaged at work.

“Actively disengaged workers may often be trapped in jobs they do not like for economic reasons,” the report explained. “Economic factors likely play a significant role in active disengagement. We infer that job opportunities allow bitter employees to leave bad situations and find better ones.” Indeed, less than half of UK employees said it’s now a good time to find a job and almost one-third said they were actively looking for another job.

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