Dead Man Working

January 11, 2009 by Jonathan Fields · 16 Comments

A nation of sleepworkers…

In 2005, a Harris Interactive study of 7,718 American workers completed during a time of great prosperity revealed:

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42% felt burned out,
33% felt dead-ended,
21% wanted desperately to change jobs,
85% did not feel strongly energized by their work,
Nearly 70% believed their employers did not inspire the best in them,
A whopping 37% of management didn’t care about the fate of their employer, and
An incredulous 34% planned on never being able to retire

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