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Gallup and Workhuman have partnered to study the wide-ranging impact of recognition in the workplace.

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Empowering Workplace Culture Through Recognition

An organization is only as strong as its work culture. But as daily stress remains at a record high and most of the world's workers are not engaged, companies must ask themselves: What can be done to foster a strong culture of connection and engagement?

To assemble and energize the workforce of the future, organizations must prioritize the "human element" of their business, recognizing that productivity and efficiency come when employees are engaged, inspired and connected to their coworkers. And one of the best ways to do that is to recognize employees for who they are and what they do.

In this report, Gallup and Workhuman define what workplace culture is, why it matters and how recognition can be leveraged to build it. The report shows how recognition can vitalize an organization's culture and generate engagement and offers four practical steps your organization can take to realize these benefits.

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Primary results from this report are based on a survey conducted from May 26 – June 6, 2023, with 1,081 adults who are employed full-time or part-time, aged 18 and older, and living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, as a part of the Gallup Panel. For results based on these samples of national employed adults, the margin of sampling error at the 95% confidence level is ±4.6 percentage points for response percentages around 50% and is ±2.8 percentage points for response percentages around 10% or 90%, design effect included.

Some results from this report are based on a survey conducted from February 3 –14, 2022, with 15,982 adults who are employed full-time or part-time, aged 18 and older, and living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, as a part of the Gallup Panel. For results based on these samples of national employed adults, the margin of sampling error at the 95% confidence level is ±1.2 percentage points.

One of the best ways to engage and inspire employees is to recognize them. In fact:
3.8x Employees who strongly agree that recognition is an important part of their organization are 3.8 times as likely to strongly agree that they feel connected to their culture.
20x Employees who receive great recognition are 20 times as likely to be engaged as employees who receive poor recognition.
72% Among employees who have great recognition experiences, 72% say that performance on "little things" is commonly recognized at their organization.

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