employee disengagement

07:34 Nov 27, 2015 

If this is about office layout and lower productivity, one can find many reasons, most notably (as in the following example) reasons that have little to do with the layout of the office:
http://www.custominsight.com/employee-engagement-survey/rese...

Considering that "non-engaged" simply means "neither good nor bad" and there is nothing to suggest these employees were ever engaged in the first place, the only viable answer I see until now is Gudrun's (although, I'm not sure Gudrun whether there's a more apt term for that in combination with office layout).

Rückzug/Verlust - see above, that is interpretative not descriptive, IMO
Demotiviert - see above, neutral is simply to perform as expected, nothing more. It doesn't have to be demotivating. Just the way it is.
innere Kündigung - That seems to hover between not engaged and actively disengaged, and as the answerer's link even shows, it is only one side of the coin (the view you have yourself, whereas these studies can only measure how you behave). To me, that doesn't seem applicable.

07:24 Nov 27, 2015 

And I just told Ramey, I would only come back here looking if we had at least three CL4 answers that warrant a closer look...

Tanja, you first need to know that Gallup does not have this kind of category. There are three:

Engaged
Not engaged
Actively Disengaged

Their studies lead to - let us call it - interesting statements such as this:
"Only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged at work, according to Gallup's new 142-country study on the State of the Global Workplace."

Not going to comment on that now, but will get you the relevant explanations:
"The bulk of employees worldwide -- 63% -- are 'not engaged,' meaning they lack motivation and are less likely to invest discretionary effort in organizational goals or outcomes. And 24% are 'actively disengaged,' indicating they are unhappy and unproductive at work and liable to spread negativity to coworkers."

See also here: http://www.custominsight.com/employee-engagement-survey/rese...

Thus, which Gallup poll are we talking about here? I assume what they're talking about here is simply "everyone who is not engaged," which is not the same as "actively disengaged."

10:57 Nov 26, 2015