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t may be hard to imagine that anything was better during the Covid-19 pandemic that killed more than 1.3 million in the US. Yet, employees’ happiness, satisfaction, and engagement levels were all higher than they are now, multiple studies show. What’s more, employees’ detachment from their roles continues to decline or remain flat even though the US ended its national emergency about two
years ago.Gallup reported last month that US employee engagement in 2024 sunk to 31%—a 10-year low. It was 34% in January 2022, nearly two years into the pandemic. Another Gallup study released last year found a mere