CULTURE
Issue #484
18 Jan 2026
Gallup do an annual survey of the global workplace, mainly measuring employee engagement. It’s no surprise that employee engagement has decline for the third year in a row, another correlation to the narrative that our collective timeline split in 2022, pivoting us down a loony tunes era where quite frankly anything can happen. Not good for the stress levels, as the data clearly shows. What is a surprise though, is that management is feeling it most. My theory: AI eroding the hierarchical organisational pyramid, to which most managers owe their jobs.