The State of the Global Workplace 2025 survey by Gallup revealed a disturbing trend – the “Great Detachment” crisis, with global engagement dropping to 21%–23%. Apart from low morale, a disinterested workforce has real economic impact, bringing down productivity. The falling global employee engagement was estimated to cost the world economy US$438 billion in 2024.
So, how do business leaders reverse this trend? The answer lies in sustained workforce engagement that goes beyond the typical corporate workplace.
What’s leading the detachment crisis?
In the shifting post-pandemic workplace realities, managers were faced with the pressure to balance executive demands with employee expectations increased for managers. In 2024, manager engagement fell to 27% from 30% with the largest decline seen in young managers and female managers. Read What is Employee Wellbeing & Why You Should Care.
Gallup includes other factors that have impacted the workforce engagement as:
- Increased workforce churn following the pandemic
- A cycle of aggressive hiring followed by sudden corrections
- Teams and departments reshaped to meet shifting priorities
- Tighter budgets as pandemic-era stimulus tapered off
- Supply chains strained by global disruptions
- Rapidly changing customers’ expectations
- Rapid digital transformation, driven by AI tools
- Shifting employee expectations around flexibility and remote work
Now that we understand the reason behind the detachment, how do we reverse the trend? How do we enhance team engagement?
ANACITY: Enhancing workforce engagement
Increasingly, employees prefer workplaces that offer more than four walls, desks and a pantry. Large office parks have responded with alacrity, offering aesthetic campuses and amenities that range from health clubs to creches to foster workforce engagement. But all this can prove pointless if these services are inaccessible. Similarly, holding special events like flea markets is pointless if employees are unaware of these occasions.
Workplace management software like ANACITY Business empowers business leaders to think out of the box – digitising the workplace experience for easier access to amenities and services, creating a feedback loop, ensuring a more enhanced sense of engagement with people, processes and spaces.
- Frictionless entries with Smart Access and Parking Management.
- Seamless access to amenities with in-app booking.
- Integrated helpdesk support for addressing complaints.
- Real-time announcements, keeping employees in the loop.
- Surveys and polls to gather opinion, establishing a feedback loop – thus enhancing employee engagement.
- efeedback to gather employee as well as visitor feedback.
- Fostering employee engagement with Events – a module that lists all workplace events for the entire month or year in one place. People stay informed of events and occasions that are planned for their interest.
- Food ordering from in-campus eateries – saving time and their effort.
- Connecting with other people for carpooling.
- Real-time view of creches in the campus for parents.
Also read Employee engagement is dropping. Here’s what you can do to fix it, 5 Ways to Optimise Workspace Management for Employee Experience and Building a Workplace Community with ANACITY: How to Foster Engagement Beyond Work.
The result is a more connected, responsive workplace where employees feel informed, heard, and genuinely engaged in the environments they work in. If you want to learn more about our workforce engagement tools, get in touch with us at support or call 80886 11229.
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