Source | www.thindifference.com | Jon Mertz
The trust and employee engagement statistics are in, and both are discouraging. Each report is a leadership jolt, yet many leaders still seem asleep at their desks. Trust and employee engagement continue to falter.
Trust
From the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer:
- The United States faced the strongest decline in trust, a 37-point aggregate drop in trust across all institutions – government, non-governmental organizations, business, and media
- Trust in journalism rose 5 points while trust declined for social platforms
- On the business front:
- 72 percent say the they trust their employer to do what is right
- 7 in 10 say that building trust is the number one job for CEOs
- 64 percent say they want CEOs take on policy changes without waiting for the government
- Trust in U.S. headquartered companies fell 5 points in the past year and 11 points since 2014
