Talent quality, turnover, and employee wellbeing
Engagement is good, but stress is toxic. Gallup's 2025 analysis found a disturbing trend: while engagement is slowly rising, **employee stress** has remained at record highs. The data suggests that high stress acts as a "negative multiplier" on productivity, often negating the gains from engagement. An engaged but burnt-out employee is a flight risk, not an asset. The economic cost of stress (healthcare, turnover, errors) acts as a contra-revenue variable that is often invisible to standard accounting.
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-workplace.aspxWe audit for "Burnout Risk." A company posting record profits while driving its workforce into the ground is borrowing earnings from the future. We view high stress metrics as a form of "off-balance-sheet debt." Eventually, that debt comes due in the form of a talent exodus or a quality control failure. We avoid companies where the "Stress/Engagement Ratio" is out of balance.
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