30.07.2024

OVER 80% OF BULGARIANS ARE NOT COMMITTED TO THEIR WORKPLACE

81% of employees in Bulgaria perform their work duties without putting effort and energy into them. Accordingly, only 19% feel truly committed to the company they work for, according to Gallup's State of Global Workplace survey.

According to this indicator, Bulgaria ranks 15th out of a total of 38 countries in Europe. The most connected to the mission and development goals of the company in which they work are in Romania, where 36% of employees declare commitment. At the other end of the ranking is France, where only 7% feel belonging to their workplace. In Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Spain and Italy, engagement is between 8 and 10%.

In Europe, this indicator has remained relatively unchanged over the past 10 years. As in 2013, it was 14% in Western Europe, and 11% in Central and Eastern Europe. Today, the average for the whole of Europe is 13%. Globally, engagement for the last 10 years has increased by 10 pp - from 13 to 23%.

Globally, over 62% of workers are disengaged and 15% are actively disengaged, costing the global economy $8.9 trillion, or 9% of global GDP. This loss is directly related to employee performance in the workplace, the report found.

A sense of belonging to the company and recognition in its goals is mostly due to great managers at the business department level, is another finding in the Gallup report.

Effective managers motivate their team members, changing their state from indifferent to inspired. In countries with higher levels of managerial engagement, the engagement rates of other employees are twice as likely to grow as well.

Employee well-being remains low

In Bulgaria, 33% of employees experience stress at work. 12% of Bulgarians deal with anger at work every day, and 13% with sadness.

When compared to other European countries, the levels of stress, anger and sadness at the workplace in our country are significantly low. Northern Cyprus (territory in the Republic of Cyprus), for example, tops all three indicators with 65, 51 and 37% respectively.

The big economies in Europe (Germany, Great Britain and France) are in the top half of the ranking. As in the UK, 40% of workers deal with stress at work, 20% with anger and 27% with sadness.

Over 50% of employees worldwide believe that now is the right time to find a job. In Bulgaria, this percentage is only 35. About 20% of workers in our country are actively looking for a new job.

Over 75% of workers in countries such as Denmark, Iceland and the Netherlands believe the time is right to look for a new job, and 32% are actively looking for a new one.

The fewest people think that the time is good to look for a job in Spain and Italy (32%), while there are more people actively looking for a new job there - 40% and 41% respectively.