If you want to know how to improve employee engagement at your company, you are not alone. Most HR directors and executives know engagement is a problem. They just are not sure what is actually causing it or what to do about it. The good news is that experts around the world have researched this topic extensively. As a result, we know what drives engagement and what kills it. We know what moves the numbers in a positive direction.
 
And we also know what does not work — which turns out to be what most companies are spending their workforce engagement budgets on.
 
This episode is a summary of some of the most compelling data related to Workforce Engagement. Below are 35 interesting employee engagement statistics for 2026 that every HR leader needs to know. (We also linked to all of our primary sources.) Below the statistics, our experts will give you the seven things worth actually measuring, the two root causes most companies never address. And finally — perhaps most usefully — we included a list of widely circulated FAKE employee engagement statistics! During our research, we kept coming across these same statistics over and over. Apparently, other posts keep reprinting them because they never actually checked the original source. We did. 

Show Notes: Most Employee Engagement Activities Aren’t Engaging Employees

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