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Workplace August 16, 2026 Story Highlights 50% of CHROs in Gallup’s CHRO survey are not confident in managers' ability to guide employees' AI use Employees with AI-supportive managers are more likely than others to say workplace culture has improved 57% of CHROs surveyed are providing AI training for people managers Corporate leaders are looking to AI for the future of their business.

During the first half of 2026, 31% of U.S. employees were engaged at work, unchanged from 2025. Eighteen percent were actively disengaged. The topline trend has stalled. Beneath it, the workplace continues to change rapidly as AI becomes a more common part of employees' daily work. Organizations are investing heavily in AI adoption to improve employee productivity and efficiency, but Gallup's latest findings suggest that access alone does not improve or weaken the employee experience.

Story Highlights 47% of U.S. employees say their organization has integrated AI tools AI users most often use AI for writing, research and problem-solving Coding and automation users report the largest productivity gains Reported organizational adoption of AI grew sharply in Q2 2026. Forty-seven percent of U.S. employees now say their organization has integrated AI tools to improve productivity, efficiency or quality, up from 41% in the last quarter.

The share of U.S. employees reporting that their employer is letting people go and reducing its workforce held steady in the first quarter of 2026 at about 21%, after nearly tripling from Q2 of 2022 to Q3 of 2025. Still, more workers in the latest reading said their employer is hiring new people and expanding its workforce (34%) than cutting back. As has been the case since the start of 2024, the largest share of workers in the first quarter (45%) reported no change in staffing where they work.

Money and Meaning: Understanding Financial Fulfillment Edward Jones and Gallup’s first study takes a broad look at how people in the United States and Canada are doing in their financial lives — not just in terms of income or wealth, but in how their money connects to what matters most to them.

Life Evaluation Amid ongoing geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty and continuous technological transformation, employee wellbeing sentiment in Germany is stuck. According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 Report, 48% of German employees rate their lives well enough to be classified as “thriving,” statistically unchanged compared with the past two measurements, based on a three-year rolling average. In 2021, a majority of employees (57%) were thriving.

Workplace May 14, 2026 Most measures recovered by late 2025, but trust, culture and leadership separated those who adapted from those who didn't. Major federal workforce reforms enacted in 2025 coincided with measurable changes in how federal employees feel about their work.

BANGKOK —Thai employees continue to have one of the highest levels of employee engagement in Southeast Asia, according to Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace report. In 2025, just over one in three Thai employees (34%) were engaged in their jobs, on par with the previous reading (33%), which represented a new high in the decade-plus trend (based on three-year rolling averages).

Employee engagement among India's workforce dipped in 2025, with 23% of employees engaged in their jobs, the lowest figure in four years. These employee engagement statistics are in line with levels recorded between 2019 and 2021 (based on three-year rolling averages), and while they remain above the current global average of 20%, they mark a notable step back for Indian workers from recent highs.

LONDON — Optimism about the local job market among employees in Europe stayed at record highs in 2025, even though engagement in their own jobs remained among the lowest of any region in the world. In 2025, 57% of European workers said it was a good time to find a job in their local area, stable compared with the previous year and higher than at any point in the long-term trend. These data are based on three-year rolling averages.