In a revelation that is set to script a nightmarish scenario for employers, the Gallup Workplace report 2024 has revealed that a shocking 86% of employees in India are “suffering” and “struggling” to cope at work on a daily basis.
The 2024 Gallup State of the Global Workplace report “examines the current state of employee mental health and wellbeing at the global level.” For its Life Evaluation Index, Gallup classified respondents into three categories of wellbeing – thriving, struggling or suffering. Employees were asked to reply by picking any of these three categories about their wellbeing.
The thriving and the struggling
Those who rated themselves at 7 or higher about their present life situation, as well as a positive outlook for themselves over the next 5 years, were put in the “thriving” bucket. Those who considered their present life situation as negative with great amounts of financial uncertainty daily stress and financial worries, were classified as “struggling.” And right at the bottom of the ranking were those with the most negative view of their current life situation, down to feeling miserable, and they were classified as “struggling”.
The miserable ones
According to Gallup, “They are more likely to report that they lack the basics of food and shelter and more likely to have physical pain and a lot of stress, worry, sadness and anger. They have less access to health insurance and care and more than double the disease burden compared with thriving respondents.”
Indian employees on Life Evaluation Index
It has now emerged that a whopping 86% of Indian employees said they were struggling or suffering and just 14% said they were thriving. Not just India, the situation is dire across South Asia too. Just 15% of South Asian respondents said they were thriving. This was as much as 19 percentage points under the global average. Notably, India with 14% was behind Nepal at 22% in the “thriving” category.
Also, as many as 35% of Indian respondents said that they experience bouts of anger on a daily basis. Shockingly, this was more than any other country in South Asia.
Even as a high majority of Indian employees stated they were suffering, they ranked the lowest in South Asia in terms of stress. Notably, 32% of them said they went through daily stress. Amazingly, the figure for this categorisation stood at 62% in Sri Lanka and as much as 58% in Afghanistan.
The good news
That was the bad news, but there was a bit of good news too. Employee engagement rate in India was quite high at 32%. In contrast, it was much above the global average of 23%.
Indian employees are not very happy with their present life situation with as many as 86% saying they were suffering, according to a Gallup Workplace report. Companies Business News – Personal Finance News, Share Market News, BSE/NSE News, Stock Exchange News Today
