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Workplace engagement in Singapore has hovered around the same level since dipping in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n By comparison, in 2025, workplace engagement measured 9 per cent in Vietnam, 25 per cent in Malaysia, 27 per cent in Indonesia and 34 per cent in Thailand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The study defines employee engagement as how involved and enthusiastic employees are at work.<\/span> To determine how engaged a worker is, researchers asked how far they had their basic needs met, chances to contribute, a sense of belonging and opportunities to learn and grow.<\/p>\n Managers were identified as the greatest driver of employee engagement, but researchers found that investment and support to build their capabilities was lacking.<\/span><\/p>\n The SID and Gallup report said Singapore\u2019s “chronically low engagement” may increasingly become a “strategic liability” that inhibits the economy’s future competitiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n This is even more important for Singapore as its economy is highly services-oriented, and the impact of worker engagement is greater in service-intensive industries, the report said.<\/span><\/p>\n Disengagement at work likely costs Singapore’s economy billions of dollars annually, added the report. It cited a cost of US$10 trillion (S$13 trillion) to the global economy from lost productivity due to low engagement in 2025, or about 9 per cent of global GDP.<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Dinesh stressed that good jobs and engaged workplaces are built deliberately.<\/p>\n The dimensions of good jobs set out strategic directions for organisations, while measures of employee engagement allow firms to find opportunities to do more to bring out the best in their workers, he said.<\/p>\n Engagement benefits both workers and employers, and for Singapore, an engaged workforce can be a powerful engine of sustained economic growth and social cohesion, he said.<\/p>\n Gallup’s 2025 survey of employee engagement in Singapore was conducted through phone interviews with about 1,000 workers between June and July last year.<\/p>\n Singapore’s workplace engagement numbers were calculated on a three-year rolling average, while the global and regional figures are based on a single year.<\/p>\nGENERATIONAL DIVIDE<\/span><\/h2>\n