2025 Employee Sentiment Report
Workers aren’t feeling engaged or essential at work, but there’s a fix: great onboarding and company culture. Read our Employee Sentiment Report to learn insights around how workers across the United States are feeling about their jobs, and how managers and companies can address these issues.
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Employee Engagement Is Low
We conducted an independent survey of over 900 workers (full-time employees and contractors), and just 35% reported feeling engaged at work. The same percentage reported feeling essential at their jobs.
When workers aren’t engaged with their work, productivity and results suffer.
Employee Engagement Is Low
We conducted an independent survey of over 900 workers (full-time employees and contractors), and just 35% reported feeling engaged at work. The same percentage reported feeling essential at their jobs.
When workers aren’t engaged with their work, productivity and results suffer.
Workers Crave Good Onboarding,
A Strong Workplace Culture
4 in 5 workers said they’d stay longer in a role if they had better onboarding.
22% of workers have left a job in the first 90 days.
Workers say it takes for them 6-7 months to feel comfortable in a role.
Workers were eight times more likely to feel engaged with a strong culture than a weak one.
of workers who said they’ve left a job in 90 days said it was because of disorganized training or a lack of training.
of workers say they are missing at least one tool (knowledge libraries, tech, productivity tools, etc.) to be successful in their roles.
Good Onboarding is Critical
for Success
In the report, we discuss how organizations can improve engagement at the onboarding process. This includes step like:
- Get into the nitty gritty of how the new worker’s team works together—not just the written rules and standard operating procedures, but the weird and wonderful ways people connect.
- Scale role-specific onboarding by properly train managers how to onboard employees after or while the company is completing the high-level onboarding.
- Set benchmarks for success during the onboarding process.
Learn more in Insight Global’s 2025 Employee Sentiment Report.
Good Onboarding is Critical
for Success
In the report, we discuss how organizations can improve engagement at the onboarding process. This includes step like:
- Get into the nitty gritty of how the new worker’s team works together—not just the written rules and standard operating procedures, but the weird and wonderful ways people connect.
- Scale role-specific onboarding by properly train managers how to onboard employees after or while the company is completing the high-level onboarding.
- Set benchmarks for success during the onboarding process.
Learn more in Insight Global’s 2025 Employee Engagement Report.
of workers who said they’ve left a job in 90 days, 60% said it was because of disorganized training or a lack of training.
of workers say they are missing at least one tool (knowledge libraries, tech, productivity tools, etc.) to be successful in their roles.
Address Engagement Issues
with Intention
The root of why workers don’t feel engaged at work differs from company to company. But as a professional services and staffing company that works with thousands of companies, from Fortune 50 to small businesses, there are actions organizations can take to have your workers show up day-to-day with purpose:
- Connecting work to a cause or purpose will lead to more engagement, productivity, and results.
- Role-specific onboarding helps and individual worker connect their work and purpose to the team and company.
- Culture is a causation for success, and teams and companies must be intentional about highlighting the intricacies—both written and unwritten—of their culture to new workers.
of workers who left a job in the first 90 days cited a weak workplace culture.
of workers who left a job in the first 90 days cited a lack of leadership.
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Survey Methodology
Insight Global commissioned Atomik Research to conduct an independent online survey of 905 U.S. workers employed in the professional service industries—technology/IT, finance/accounting, engineering, and consulting. The sample consists of 501 workers who are full-time employees and 404 workers who report working as an independent contractor in the professional service industries are currently (n=384) or within 12 months of taking the survey (n=20).
Further, in order to qualify, participants who disclosed a current or recent status as an independent contractor were also required to disclose that they currently or formerly worked as an independent contractor for a competitor of a prior employer.
The margin of error for the sample of 501 full-time employees is +/- 4 percentage points with a confidence level of 95 percent. The margin of error for the sample of 404 independent contractors is +/- 5 percentage points with a confidence level of 95 percent.