2019 Employee Engagement Trends – Quantum Workplace

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Quantum Workplace’s 2019 Employee Engagement Trends Report studies employee engagement at best places to work in the United States. Data from this report was collected from over 600,000 employees from more than 10,000 workplaces in America.

Main insights from this report include:

  • In 2018, there was an increase in the number of highly engaged employees and a decrease in number of disengaged employees. Some main factors that drive engagement include the ability to fully utilize strengths at work, trust in leadership and organization future.
  • Nonprofit sector had the lowest number of highly engaged employees, however, this number has slightly increased compared to the previous year. Although organizations with less than 250 employees had the highest rate of highly engaged employees, they also experience the largest decrease in this rate. On the other hand, organizations with more than 500 employees saw the largest increase in this rate compared to previous year despite the fact that they had the lowest number of highly engaged workers.
  • Among 15 different industries, real estate had the highest engaged rate, followed by construction and management of enterprise. Manufacturing and wholesale trade were industries recorded the lowest engagement rate.
  • South America had the highest number of engaged employees while Northeast regions recorded the lowest in this number. Huntsville in Alabama topped the list of highly engaged cities, followed by Nashville in Tennessee and South Florida in Florida. Denver in Colorado and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania were cities with lowest highly engaged rate.
  • Employees with salaries were more engaged compared to people who were paid hourly. Executives had the highest engagement rate while it was the lowest among individual contributors. However, it was also the individual contributor that recorded the largest increase in engagement rate, while supervisors experienced the largest decrease in this rate.
  • Employees who spent less than a year at their organization had the highest engagement rate, followed by employees with more than 15 years of tenure, yet, this group also recorded the largest decrease in the rate.
  • HR is the most engaged department in organizations, followed by Sales and Marketing. Manufacturing was identified as the least engaged department and also experienced the largest decrease in engagement compared the previous year.
  • People with higher education were more engaged compared to people with lower education levels. People who were older than 66 were most engaged at work, while young people who were less than 25 years old were least engaged. In general, male employees were more engaged at work than female employees and engagement rate was the lowest among people with another gender identity. Employees with Hispanic/Latino background had the highest engagement rate while black or African American had the lowest engagement rate.

Full report here.