According to Gallup, U.S. employee engagement reached a record high last month. Workplace engagement, which has averaged below 33 percent since the research organization began its daily tracking of the metric in 2011, hit 34.1 percent in March, up from 32.5 percent the first two months of 2016.
Before this, U.S. employee engagement hadn’t reached a record high since March 2011, when the average was 33.8 percent. While the average rate of employees not engaged or actively disengaged at work continues to hover near 70 percent, the new numbers on people feeling committed to their work may be hopeful news for U.S. businesses. Worldwide, only 13 percent of employees are engaged at work, Gallup reported in January.
