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Mark Murphy tracks how employee engagement collapses over time: highly engaged workers drop from 37% in year one to 22% by year five, while the intensely disengaged nearly double from 16% to 32%.
Mark Murphy tracks how employee engagement collapses over time: highly engaged workers drop from 37% in year one to 22% by year five, while the intensely disengaged nearly double from 16% to 32%.
In an employee's first year, about 37% are highly engaged, right? They're, they're fired up. They're new. Everything's exciting to them. But by year 5, that number has dropped to about 22%. And here's the part that should worry you, really worry you. Over those same 5 years, the share of intensely disengaged employees climbs from like 16% all the way up to 32%. So it basically doubles.
