{"id":18363,"date":"2013-06-19T20:17:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=18363"},"modified":"2013-06-19T20:17:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:17:58","slug":"70-percent-of-americans-emotionally-disconnected-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/06\/70-percent-of-americans-emotionally-disconnected-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"70 Percent of Americans ‘Emotionally Disconnected’ at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nearly one in five hates work so much they sabotage their employers.<\/span><\/address>\n
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By<\/em><\/span>\u00a0Steven Rosenfeld<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you thought that Americans who kept their jobs during the Great Recession were glad to be working, you would be dead wrong. According to a Gallup.com<\/span>\u00a0report<\/span><\/a><\/span>, 70 percent of American workers are \u201cemotionally disconnected\u201d at work, with nearly one in five employees \u201cactively disengaged.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s zombieland out there for the American workforce.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gallup\u2019s ongoing \u201cState of the American Workforce\u201d survey reveals that America is largely a nation of working automatons, with most people not feeling emotional ties to what they do and sizeable numbers actively seeking to sabotage their colleagues and managers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese latest findings indicate that 70 percent of American workers are \u2018not engaged\u2019 or \u2018actively disengaged\u2019 and are emotionally disconnected from their workplaces and less likely to be productive,\u201d the pollers said. \u201cCurrently, 52 percent of workers are not engaged, and worse, another 18 percent are actively disengaged in their work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Which Americans hate their jobs the most? Educated young men appear to be the least committed to their employer, Gallup said, adding that lower-paying service sector jobs also have large percentages of alienated workers. In contrast, women are more loyal and attentive workers, as well as people who are at the beginning and end of their work lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMillennials are most likely of all generations to say they will leave their jobs in the next 12 months if the job market improves,\u201d Gallup found. \u201cEmployees with a college degree are not as likely as those with less education to report having a positive, engaging workplace experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gallup\u2019s annual workplace survey is conducted as part of its effort to market its services to firms that are seeking to boost employee morale. Its findings haven\u2019t changed over the past decade, with only 30 percent of Americans saying they are emotionally engaged at work. The recent Great Recession and spike in unemployment did not affect that trend.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gallup read 12 statements to workers across the country about their work and asked for comments. The statements included, \u201cI know what is expected of me at work,\u201d \u201cAt work my opinions seem to count,\u201d \u201cI have the opportunity to do what I do best every day,\u201d \u201cIn the last seven days, I have received recognition or praise,\u201d \u201cSomeone at work seems to care about me as a person,\u201d and \u201cMy associates\u2026 are committed to doing quality work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gallup has surveyed 25 million workers in 189 countries since the late 1990s. It describes three kinds of employes: engaged, not engaged and actively disengaged.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEngaged employees work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company. They drive innovation and move the organization forward,\u201d Gallup said. \u201cNot Engaged employees are essentially \u2018checked out.\u2019 They\u2019re sleepwalking through their workday, putting time\u2014but not energy or passion\u2014into their work. Actively disengaged employees aren\u2019t just unhappy at work; they\u2019re busy acting out their unhappiness. Every day, these workers undermine what their engaged coworkers accomplish.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Curiously, Gallup suggests that Americans in red states might be better employees than in blue states, because being emotionally engaged is key to better productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLouisiana leads the country with the highest percentage of engaged workers, at 37 percent, followed closely by Oklahoma at 36 percent. South Dakota, Georgia, Arkansas, and South Carolina each have 34 percent of engaged workers. Thirty-three percent of workers are engaged in Texas, Nevada, Wyoming, Alabama, North Dakota, and Florida. At the far end of the range is Minnesota, which has the lowest number of engaged workers, at 26 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGallup found that at the opposite end of the engagement spectrum, more than one in five (21 percent) workers in Rhode Island are actively disengaged, as are 20 percent of employees in New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, Vermont, Kentucky, and Illinois. When looking at the range of actively disengaged employees, Idaho had the lowest percentage of this type of worker, at 14 percent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As you might expect, Gallop places the blame for a nation of alienated workers squarely on the desks of managers and executives, who never learned basic people skills to make others feel good about themselves and their work.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGallup\u2019s research has found that managers are primarily responsible for their employees\u2019 engagement levels,\u201d the report said. \u201cOrganizations should coach managers to take an active role in building engagement plans with their employees, hold managers accountable, track their progress, and ensure they continuously focus on emotionally engaging their employees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Intriguingly, people who work remotely seem to be more emotionally connected to their work\u2014or at least put in longer hours, Gallup said. \u201cDespite not always having a manager nearby to monitor their productivity, remote workers actually log more hours at their primary job than do their on-site counterparts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gallup also found that companies of less than 10 people, or teams within companies that size, have the most committed workers, \u201csuggesting something unique and beneficial about working in a smaller, tight-knit work environment when it comes to engagement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The polling organization also found that employers tended to treat recent college graduates poorly, instead of making them feel valued. \u201cDespite the benefits that the increasingly educated workforce is expected to bring to the U.S. economy, it appears that employers are doing too little to engage this influx of college graduates in their workplaces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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