Gallup’s 2026 State of the Global Workplace report confirmed what many of us have been watching unfold in real time. Global employee engagement has fallen to 20%, its lowest point since the pandemic. The estimated cost is $10 trillion in lost productivity. And the sharpest decline didn’t happen among frontline employees. It happened among managers. Manager engagement has dropped nine points since 2022, from 31% to 22%. The group that organizations count on to drive