54% of Employees not Engaged

According to Jackson and Schmidt in "Transforming Corporate Culture", Gallup and Blessing White have both done extensive research on employee engagement and its impact on business performance. Engaged employees care about the future of the company and are willing to invest extra discretionary effort. Disengaged employees don't. Out of 17 million employees surveyed (2010), less than one-third (28-29%) say that they are actively engaged at work. More distressing is that 54% of employees report that they are not engaged: They float through each workday "doing time" with no passion.