State of the Global Workplace Report<\/a> asked more than 225,000 workers around the world about their experiences on the job and in their lives generally. <\/p>\nAmong them, Canadian respondents gave higher-than-average ratings for their lives on the whole, but also some of the highest rates of daily stress. <\/p>\n
Asked to rate their life\u2019s circumstances, 33 per cent of global respondents were considered \u201cthriving\u201d by Gallup, with a majority \u201cstruggling\u201d at 58 per cent, and nine per cent rating low enough to be considered \u201csuffering.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thriving employees rated their current circumstances at seven out of 10 or higher, with their expectations for the future rating eight or higher. <\/p>\n
Fifty-three per cent of Canadians were rated as thriving; more than in the United States (52 per cent) and Europe (47 per cent), and behind only Australia and New Zealand (56 per cent), Latin America and the Caribbean (54 per cent), by region.<\/p>\n
That relatively high rating for Canadian success may come at a cost. <\/p>\n
While Canada reported low or near-average rates of negative feelings like anger (19 per cent), sadness (23 per cent) or loneliness (16 per cent), nearly six in 10 respondents told surveyors they experienced stress \u201ca lot of the day,\u201d a full 18 percentage points higher than the global rate, and more than any regional average. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Well-being, job engagement on the decline <\/b><\/p>\n
Gallup notes that North American workers have shown declining satisfaction in recent years, with the number of \u201cthriving\u201d employees down to 52 per cent from 60 in 2011. <\/p>\n
The report attributes the drop in satisfaction to the cost of living, including housing and inflationary pressures, but notes that engagement or interest in jobs can contribute — a metric that\u2019s also showing trouble.<\/p>\n
Asked a series of questions about their connection to their workplace, from clarity in expectations, to personal growth, to friendships with colleagues, just 21 per cent of respondents globally were rated as engaged with their jobs, enthusiastic about work and interested in moving their organizations forward. <\/p>\n
By far the largest group, 62 per cent, were not engaged, \u201cpsychologically unattached\u201d with their work, and putting in time but not \u201cenergy or passion,\u201d the group the most likely to practice \u201cquietly quitting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Worst of all, 17 per cent of global respondents were found to be \u201cactively disengaged,\u201d showing resentment at unmet needs and \u201cacting out their unhappiness.\u201d <\/p>\n
The survey found that 50 per cent of all respondents were watching for or actively seeking a new job.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are witnessing a pivotal moment in the global workplace \u2014 one where engagement is faltering at the exact time artificial intelligence is transforming every industry in its path,\u201d wrote Gallup CEO Jon Clifton in the report\u2019s foreword. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe stand at the edge of a new era of work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian workers are among the most stressed in the world, even if most say they\u2019re thriving, a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[834,105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-45345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114390380223368239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}