Disengaged, unmotivated, or unhappy employees are a huge problem for the United States. Gallup’s 2017 report State of the American Workplace calculated that actively disengaged workers cost the nation $483 billion to $605 billion each year in lost productivity each year.
Company culture, manager-employee relationship dynamics, salary, scheduling, access to benefits, and various other factors can all help contribute to (or detract from) the multifaceted goal of employee satisfaction. The inability to connect time spent and hours worked to a specific outcome is less frequently acknowledged as a cause of lacking job satisfaction. In fact, 14% of workers admit to not knowing how their day-to-day tasks affect their company; 53% said they want greater insights.
