The meQ

State of the Workforce Report

Maintaining peak performance while safeguarding employee well-being is now critical. meQ’s State of the Workforce Report addresses this intersection to help companies cultivate both human potential and business outcomes.

The meQ

State of the Workforce Report

Maintaining peak performance while safeguarding employee well-being is now critical. meQ’s State of the Workforce Report addresses this intersection to help companies cultivate both human potential and business outcomes.

Featured Report

High Performance Doesn’t Have to Be a Grind

Is hustle culture actually holding your workforce back? meQ’s 2026 State of the Workforce Report reveals some surprising findings — and the data might just change how you think about performance, productivity, and what it really takes to succeed.

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2026

Reports

2026 State of the Workforce Report

Learn what meQ’s 2026 State of the Workforce Report reveals about grind culture, sustainable performance, and what’s driving your retention risk.
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Blog

2026: The Year Grind Culture Grows Up

By Andrew Shatté, Chief Knowledge Officer and Co-founder, meQ As the ‘Resilience Guy’, I’ve had the dubious distinction of working with companies going through their worst of times. Hundreds of NASA engineers were working on the Constellation Project—a permanent moon base—when the project was suddenly defunded. Thousands of people employed...
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2025

Guides

Summer 2025 State of the Workforce Report

Uncertainty. Pessimism. Disconnection. Learn what you can do about this triple threat that’s driving burnout, turnover, and healthcare costs across your workforce.
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Guides

The High Cost of Pessimism: Today’s Greatest Workforce Threat… and What to Do About It

meQ research reveals how uncertainty drives pessimism, which leads to employee disconnect—a dangerous cycle affecting 55% of today’s workforce. The good news? There are proven solutions.
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News

A Rise In Pessimism. Five Suggestions From Our Research And My Life.

New research shows a level of pessimism we haven’t seen in a long time. While there are many reasons for this (politics, climate, economy, AI fears), we all need to do something about it.
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News

Majority of workers think ‘stable full-time job’ is a myth: Report

New data shows unfavorable opinions of the 9-to-5 workday, with fewer workers interested in taking leadership roles.
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News

Worker pessimism, uncertainty and disconnect reach ‘critical levels,’ survey finds

Employees with work-related pessimism experience a more than 60% reduction in productivity, meQuilibrium’s chief science officer said.
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News

‘Always On,’ How Workers Are Suffering From ‘Infinite’ Work

Newsweek spoke to the experts to find out more about the “infinite workday,” and how they are impacting Americans.
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Reports

Winter 2025 State of the Workforce Report

meQ’s Winter 2025 State of the Workforce Report reveals an impending “manager crash,” Gen Z’s vulnerability to change, and other trends that will impact your workforce in the coming year.
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Blog

2025 Predictions: 4 Trends that Will Define Workforce Success in the Coming Year

No one knows exactly how 2025 will play out for businesses. There are too many unknowns, from the economy to political and social instability to climate events, each increasingly unpredictable. But one thing is certain; successful organizations will be the ones that equip their people to handle the demands of...
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News

2025 is set to bring a ‘manager crash’ as burnout and lack of support reach a breaking point

Bad news for 2025: Following years of unaddressed burnout, overworking and faulty support systems, a “manager crash” is set to hit the workplace.
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2024

Reports

The Protective Power of Hope and Belonging in the Workplace

The Spring 2024 Workforce Well-being Report explores the role of hope and belonging in a resilient workforce, the latest well-being trends among Gen Z workers, and more.
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News

New Study Discovers Surprising Remedy That Protects Workers Against Career Burnout, Job Stress

meQ’s Spring 2024 Workforce Well-being Report highlights the power of hope and belonging as protective factors against anxiety, depression, and burnout in the workplace.
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News

Don’t Underestimate the Remarkable Power of Hope in The Workplace, New meQ Survey Says

Hope, Belonging and Resilience Are Remedies for Protecting Workers Against Burnout and Job Stress As a counterpoint to the extremely high numbers of employees experiencing pessimism in its winter 2023 Workforce Well-being Survey, meQuilibrium (meQ) investigated a positive emotion–hope–in its latest research. The new survey of 5,989 adults released today, which examines persistent...
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2023

Reports

From Stress to Strength: How You Feel Depends on Who You Are

From a rise in pessimism to Gen Z’s distinct struggles, our Fall 2023 Workforce Well-being Report reveals significant differences in retention, productivity, and well-being risks faced by different groups of workers.
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Webinars

Move Your Workforce from Stress to Strength

In this information-packed half hour, meQ’s Chief Science Officer, Brad Smith, Ph.D., shares insights from meQ’s latest Workforce Well-being Report.
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News

Pessimistic attitudes about nation loom, impacting workplace

With just a year until national Election Day, the attitudes of working Americans seems to be shifting to reflect the upcoming voting season.
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Reports

Report: The Pivotal Role of Managers in Employee Well-being

meQ’s latest Member Research Report looks at emerging workplace trends for 2023, including increased workplace incivility, the key role of managers in employee well-being, evolving dynamics of remote work, and more.
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Blog

What is LIDBAIHT and why should you care?

LIDBAIHT stands for “low-intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target.”  That’s how wikipedia–rather academically–describes workplace incivility.  Many of us have experienced it more viscerally than the definition suggests. For me, it’s how I feel when the jerk over in analytics (or finance, or wherever) talks over me...
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News

‘Why You Gotta Be So Rude?’ 7 Ways to Cure Workplace Incivility

Workplace incivility can cause problems long after and far deeper than the initial jab. Rudeness, antagonism, animosity and disrespect are just seedlings that spawn toxic environments.
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2022

Reports

Psychological Safety + Employee Well-being: A 2022 meQ Member Research Report

Conducted among more than 3,900 meQ members in July 2022, this iteration of the meQ Workforce Well-being Report reveals that reluctance to return to the office is about more than just the commute.
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Blog

Psychological Safety at Work: The Remote Kids are Alright (Maybe Even Better)

The remote/hybrid/onsite discussion is heating up. After the newness of no commute and improved work-life balance has worn off, a set of strong contrarian views seems to be emerging. Malcolm Gladwell is on the record lamenting that people need to come into the office in order to feel like they...
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2021

Reports

Overwhelmed: Threats to Employee Wellbeing Persist & Employer Support Remains Critical

This report details changes in overall well-being in a sample of 5,474 meQ members between December 2020 and July 2021.
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2020

Reports

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Workforce Resilience

To better understand the workforce impact of COVID-19, meQ conducted a comprehensive study of data from over 7,000 members, comparing June 2020 to previous results from December 2019.
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Blog

The Positive Impact of Employer Support during COVID

Our most recent membership research study offers some good news about employee well-being, and in particular positive insights into how you can best support employees at this time. During these trying times, there’s no shortage of advice about the ways that employers can help support employees, from communicating openly and...
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