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?
70 percent of employed Americans are considered to be disengaged employees. Weâre talking about 3/4th of the American workforce feeling disengaged in the workplace. Out of that, a small percentage would say that if possible they would go out of their way to damage the company!