Global employee engagement is at 20%.
This is the second consecutive year of decline, according to the Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2026.
The bill: $10 trillion in lost productivity, roughly 9% of global GDP.
Disengagement is no longer a culture metric.
It is a P&L line item.
Best-practice organizations are running 79% manager engagement against the 22% global average.
The gap is not motivational. It is structural.