O.C Tanner, globally renowned improviser of workplace culture, released a report, ‘2024 Global Culture Report’, highlighting people-centric solutions are the ones that win and endure, every employee’s need to be recognized and valued, while ensuring that resilience must exceed surviving the next challenge.

The report, which is now in its sixth year, analyzes the status of the workplace today and provides leaders with the knowledge and tactics they need to take on the day's most pressing issues.

The 2024 Global Culture Report offers a thorough review of a number of urgent issues, including the four-fifths of the world's workforce, who frequently feel ignored and undervalued despite being crucial to success.

The group, known as "the 80 percent" overwhelmingly lacks access to the resources, opportunities, and technologies required to connect and progress at work as well as the freedom and voice to influence the workplace environment.

“Organizations, especially those with large populations of frontline employees, need to work closely with their teams to create thriving workplace cultures—where all want to come, do their best work, and stay—in the face of ongoing change, and this research will help enable leaders to do so”, said Gary Beckstrand, Vice President of the O.C. Tanner Institute.

 

With workplace culture and strategies evolving even faster, the Global Culture Report 2024 sheds more light on the importance of skill building, equitable flexibility and practical empathy.  These elements are the cornerstones of a satisfying and enduring work sphere in the vibrant IMEA landscape and employers should seriously consider it to build a fulfilling and sustainable workplace.” - said Zubin Zack - Managing Director - South Asia, Middle East, and Africa.

Key Findings

• Only 27 percent of leaders are confident in their ability to guide their teams through change.

• Only 58 percent of firms act to improve after obtaining employee feedback, and only 59 percent of employees believe their leaders' professions of empathy are followed by significant action and support.

• When a boss demonstrates empathy, workers envision themselves remaining at their company for 2.5 more years.

• Nearly two out of every five of "the 80 percent" claim that other office workers think less of them. Nearly as many (35 percent) claim that top leaders downplay or reject their ideas, and 39 percent claim that their labor is not as highly appreciated as office work.

• When employees are dissatisfied with the degree of flexibility at work, the likelihood of burnout rises by a factor of five.

• Less than a quarter of workers (22 percent) say they would wish to upgrade their abilities in order to transition to a new position at a different company.

• Three strong concepts, adaptation, proactivity, and perseverance, are the guiding principles for nimbly resilient leaders, teams, and organizations.

• There is a 125 percent increased chance of burnout among employees who feel they are expected to just push through difficulties without complaining (over half, or 53 percent).