The Complacency Effect – Despite Disengagement at Work, Employees Plan to Stay at Their Current Jobs

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Achievers’ The Complacency Effect Report discusses the impacts of workplace complacency and identifies four focus areas to improve one of the most important organizational challenges – employee engagement.

Main findings from this report including:

  • Only 21% of people think they are very engaged at work. Just 7% of employees who are disengaged are currently looking for a new job. Only 14% of people believed being not engaged was one of the reasons why they would change jobs. The most common reasons for switching jobs are pay raise, career growth and better benefits.
  • 16% of employees think their organizations are “horrible” at collecting employee feedback, that they never ask for feedback. 40% of employees rate their companies as “OK” at soliciting feedback given that they collect feedback once or twice a year. Over 20% of respondents think their organization never act on feedback.
  • Only 10% of employees claim that their manager is the most critical factor that negatively affects their engagement at work. 13% of them said the main reason for them to consider leaving their jobs was that their companies weren’t willing to ask for their feedback.
  • Almost 20% of employees think their organization is “horrible” at employee recognition. Only 43% of them agree that their company is doing “OK” recognizing its employees. A mere 11% of employees would get weekly recognition and 29% of them are recognized monthly.
  • 26% of respondents identified employee recognition as one of the main reasons for them to stay at their current job. Almost 20% of them said they would consider changing jobs if they are not being recognized.
  • The top reasons for employees to stay with their current employer include compensation, work-life balance and benefits. On the other hands, advancement, compensation were identified as the top challenges to engagement at work.
  • Only 9% of employees agree that leadership at their organization is very committed to cultural initiatives. 31% of them rate their organization as average at being reactive to their culture needs. 38% of them claimed that their organization never talks about culture or have talked about it but didn’t have any action to enhance it.

Achievers is an Employee Engagement Platform that integrates employee recognition and rewards solution to enhance employee engagement.

Full report here.