State of the Global Workplace

The State of the Global Workplace: 2026 Report is our annual report on how the world's employees are doing — not just at work, but in life.

The research is powered by the Gallup World Poll, which surveys adults in more than 140 countries every year, making the State of the Global Workplace the largest ongoing study of the employee experience in the world.

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The report provides insights based on analysis of global, regional and country-level trends on measures like:

employee engagement
employee wellbeing
employee daily emotional experiences
employee perceptions of the job market

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20%

of employees worldwide are engaged at work

Engagement is declining globally — and the manager crisis is a main reason why.

Global engagement has fallen to 20%, its lowest level since 2020, and manager engagement has dropped nine points since 2022.

34%

of employees worldwide are thriving

Wellbeing is stabilizing, but the emotional toll of work remains higher than before the pandemic.

Employee wellbeing improved for the first time in three years in 2025, but the percentages of employees experiencing daily stress, anger and sadness remain above pre-pandemic levels.

52%

of workers say now is a good time to find a new job

Job markets are shifting unevenly: Remote-capable workers are losing optimism, while on-site workers are gaining it.

The 2025 increase in global job market optimism came entirely from non-remote-capable, fully on-site workers, while optimism dropped for fully remote and remote-capable, fully on-site workers.

8.7x

as likely to strongly agree that AI has transformed their work

AI is transforming individual productivity, but managers hold the key to organizational impact.

Our recent research in the U.S. finds that within organizations that are investing in AI technology, employees whose managers actively support AI use are 8.7x as likely to strongly agree that it has transformed how work gets done, yet less than a third of employees in organizations implementing AI report that level of support.

We invite you to explore the data behind these and more discoveries in the State of the Global Workplace: 2026 Report.