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Productivity
2 stories about productivity - what is happening, and what to do about it.
Engage for Success · 2026
Productivity Starts with People: Key Findings from the 2026 Engage for Success Annual Survey
Engage for Success asked whether leaders and managers put people issues first. Where staff saw both do it, engagement stood at 79%; where they saw neither, it was 50%, and more than a third of staff saw neither. The same report links command-and-control management with more stress and more people keeping quiet about problems, so the gap is less about perks than about how a manager runs the week.
Gallup · 2026
State of the Global Workplace: 2026 Report
Global engagement fell to 20%, its lowest since 2020, at a cost Gallup puts near $10 trillion. The half nobody quotes is worse: the collapse is concentrated in managers, the exact people every culture programme is handed to for delivery.