NationSwell surveyed 60 impact leaders between February 26 and March 5 to better understand employee sentiment and engagement trends in early 2025. Participants ranged across organization types, including corporations, non-profit organizations, corporate foundations, and private philanthropies. This resource provides key learnings from the research, as well as four ways impact leaders can boost engagement.
Key learnings and results from that survey include:
- Employee engagement is trending lower in 2025
- Leadership communication is inconsistent
- Most engagement initiatives remain, but flexible work is being reduced
- Burnout is the top engagement challenge
- Employees need more transparency leadership
- Most organizations use engagement data to support their business case
Four ways impact leaders can boost engagement:
- Make the case for internal transparency between leadership and employees
- Defend essential employee engagement infrastructure
- Collaborate with HR partners on workforce wellbeing initiatives
- Invest deeply in making work purposeful for employees, regardless of setting
