Meaning: Exhausted. Synonyms: jaded; wearied. Context example: my father's words had left me jaded and depressed. Similar: tired (depleted of strength or energy)
Text Size. One of the many startling results in Friday's unemployment report for June was how few American adults are currently employed. Even though the unemployment rate is technically 9.2%, the employment-population ratio fell to 58.2%, matching its recession low. But it might help to put this number into perspective: just how bad is it?
The Costs of an Apathetic Workforce. The percentage of engaged managers in the U.S. is alarmingly low -- and as predicted by the cascade effect, so is the percentage of engaged employees. Gallup's 2013 State of the American Workplace report revealed that 30% of U.S. workers are engaged, while 52% are not engaged and 18% are actively disengaged.