Pandemic has frayed relationship between employees and bosses, leading to greater disengagement at work, survey suggests.
, which caused a massive upheaval in the labor market and in society at large. Millions of workers shifted to remote work, while others lost their jobs during the initial lockdowns. More fundamentally, the crisis also spurred some Americans to question their very relationship to work. Now that companies are returning to offices or instituting hybrid schedules, some workers feel disconnected from those decisions and may not feel their employers care about them.
One surprise finding is that managers are also quiet quitting in greater numbers, according to Gallup's findings. Only about 1 in 3 managers describe themselves as emotionally or psychologically engaged at work, with this group experiencing one of the biggest drops in engagement in its most recent survey.
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