A recent Gallup poll reveals that only 30 percent of Americans are actively engaged in their jobs.
Gallup interviewed 150,000 full time and part-time workers for their State of the American Workplace Report. 20 percent of workers report that they hate going to work and 50 percent report a persistent case of Monday blues.
Why are these statistics so important?
“[Disengaged employees] are more likely than engaged employees to steal from their companies, negatively influence their coworkers, miss workdays, and drive customers away,” Gallup says on The Gallup Blog.
Even though workplace satisfaction is at its highest level since Gallup started its workplace poll in 2000, some workplaces are focusing on providing perks to their employees to boost morale. Experts, like Randy Allen of Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, advise businesses to focus on intangible perks.
"There's a lot of research out there that says, although it depends on the employee, the perks come out as less important as job satisfaction," Allen told The Today Show.
The results of the Gallup survey also support the use of intangible perks to boost morale among employees. Some of these perks are vacation time, flex time, and a focus on employee’s strengths.
Read the full Gallup report at State of the American Workplace.