Why 80% of employees are miserable at work

Why 80% of employees are miserable at work

During a session that tackled several subjects including including work culture, gender bias and artificial intelligence, the head of advisory firm Gallup, Jon Clifton, revealed the importance of fixing the work culture.

“The workplace is killing us,” Jon Clifton said. “We are closer to colonising Mars than we are to fixing the global workplace. We found that 80% of workers have either quietly disengaged or loudly quit. They are miserable at work.”

The session which was titled ‘Data-driven Behaviour: Is it a Myth?’ also had Raja Al Mazrouei, Managing Director, Etihad Credit Insurance and Prof Arturo Bris, Director, IMD World Competitiveness Center on the panel as Noora Alabbar, director of international media engagement at Dubai Media Office moderated it.

110,000 hours

Clifton said that the one thing people spend the most time doing, other than sleep, is work. “According to one estimate, we spend 110,000 hours at work, which is equivalent to 13 straight years,” he said. “So if you are miserable, imagine what that means for the rest of your life.”

He then went on to say how leaders must prioritise creating great jobs. "If you want a silver blade to a great life, then it is a great job," he said. "so I