# Employee appreciation day 2026: Workforce Benchmarks

> The median published figure in the Workforce Benchmarks is 20 percent across 3 sources' own pages (range 10 to 28 percent), read 12 September 2026.

HeadcountDesk · https://headcountdesk.com/datasets/workforce-benchmarks/ · computed 2026-10-05

**Median published figure:** 20 % (range 10 to 28 %; 3 sources with a figure; 3 of 9 sources read publish one).

3 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 6 publish none, read 12 September 2026.

## By measure

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| measure union membership rate, all wage and salary workers | 10 % | 10 to 10 % | 1 |
| measure employee engagement share, global | 20 % | 20 to 20 % | 1 |
| measure share of men with 10 years or more with their current employer | 28 % | 28 to 28 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [BLS JOLTS and tenure releases](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.nr0.htm) | 28 % | share of men with 10 years or more with their current employer | 2026-09-12 |
| [Gallup State of the Global Workplace](https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspx) | 20 % | employee engagement share, global | 2026-09-12 |
| [BLS JOLTS and tenure releases](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm) | 10 % | union membership rate, all wage and salary workers | 2026-09-11 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (3)

- [BLS JOLTS and tenure releases](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.nr0.htm), read 2026-09-12: "Among men, 28 percent of wage and salary workers had 10 years or more"
- [Gallup State of the Global Workplace](https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspx), read 2026-09-12: "The 2026 edition finds that global employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020, costing the world economy an estimated $10 trillion in lost productivity."
- [BLS JOLTS and tenure releases](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm), read 2026-09-11: "--was 10.0 percent in 2025, little changed from the prior year, the U.S."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [CIPD Health and Wellbeing at Work](https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/reports/health-well-being-work/), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Gallup State of the Global Workplace](https://www.gallup.com/workplace/247391/fixing-employee-turnover-costs.aspx), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [SHRM research](https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/research), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ABS Labour Force, Australia](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-australia/latest-release), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [HSE work-related ill health statistics](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causinj/index.htm), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Statistics Canada, labour](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/subjects/labour), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 3 of the 9 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 6 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 3 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 63 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one series per benchmark - quits rate, sickness absence days, median tenure, engagement share, union density - by industry and by country from the statistics agencies and the standing surveys, put on one axis so an employer can read its own number against the right comparator rather than against a vendor's marketing figure, with the change since the previous release

## Sources

- [CIPD Health and Wellbeing at Work](https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/reports/health-well-being-work/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Gallup State of the Global Workplace](https://www.gallup.com/workplace/247391/fixing-employee-turnover-costs.aspx) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Gallup State of the Global Workplace](https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspx) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [SHRM research](https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/research) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ABS Labour Force, Australia](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-australia/latest-release) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS JOLTS and tenure releases](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/tenure.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS JOLTS and tenure releases](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Eurofound European Working Conditions Surveys](https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/surveys/european-working-conditions-surveys) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE work-related ill health statistics](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causinj/index.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS sickness absence in the labour market](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/latest) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Statistics Canada, labour](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/subjects/labour) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [bls.gov](https://www.bls.gov/charts/job-openings-and-labor-turnover/quits-rate.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The median published figure in the Workforce Benchmarks is 20 percent across 3 sources' own pages (range 10 to 28 percent), read 12 September 2026.
- 3 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 6 publish none, read 12 September 2026.
- Workforce Benchmarks, measure union membership rate, all wage and salary workers: median 10 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
- Workforce Benchmarks, measure employee engagement share, global: median 20 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
- Workforce Benchmarks, measure share of men with 10 years or more with their current employer: median 28 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.

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