This means that the people responsible for teams are, at this moment, almost as disengaged as those they manage.<\/p>\n
European data confirms the decline: only 16% of managers are engaged, compared to 10% of individual contributors. The gap between the two categories, traditionally significant, has now reduced to a minimum.<\/p>\n
In Romania, high engagement and almost equally high stress<\/strong><\/p>\n With a score of 31%, Romania has the second highest level of engagement in Europe, after Albania (32%), in a region where the average is only 12%. Romanian employees\u2019 involvement in their work exceeds the global average of 20%. Also in Romania, the thriving level, meaning the percentage of employees who positively evaluate their overall life and their outlook for the next five years, reaches 55%, compared to 49% in Europe and 34% globally.<\/p>\n But these figures do not tell the full story. Daily stress reported by employees in Romania is 38%, almost identical to the European average (39%) and the global one (40%). Loneliness at work stands at 14%, and daily sadness at 15%, levels comparable to the rest of the continent. In other words, employees in Romania are more engaged than almost anywhere in Europe, but just as stressed. High engagement coexisting with persistent stress raises questions about the sustainability of the model, especially if managers, who support this level of engagement, do not benefit from their own decompression mechanisms.<\/p>\n Managers have harder days than their teams<\/strong><\/p>\n The Gallup report shows that, although leaders and managers have a better overall life evaluation, their working days are more difficult. Compared to individual contributors, they report more stress (+7 percentage points), anger (+12), sadness (+11), and loneliness (+10).<\/p>\n Previous Gallup studies show that around 70% of the variation in a team\u2019s engagement is driven by the direct manager. And when managers are disengaged, the impact spreads across the entire organization.<\/p>\n Manager burnout is not an HR topic. It is a business risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n Gallup estimates that global disengagement costs the economy approximately 10 trillion dollars annually, equivalent to 9% of global GDP. Organizations that systematically invest in managers achieve different results: in companies considered benchmarks by Gallup, 79% of managers are engaged, almost four times the global average.<\/p>\n The report also shows that when managers are engaged, they report negative emotions at lower rates than individual contributors. Engagement acts, in other words, as a buffer against the pressure that comes with a leadership role.<\/p>\n What Complice.ro<\/a> data shows: less than 1 in 20 initiatives target middle management<\/strong><\/p>\n The corporate segment represents about 65% of Complice.ro\u2019s business. Companies in Romania organize experiences both for internal audiences, employees, managers, board members, and for business partners. But the distribution is not uniform: the most frequent requests target either board members or team members. Less than 1 in 20 corporate experiential actions are currently dedicated to the middle management layer.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we talk with clients about wellbeing or recognition programs, initiatives dedicated to managers appear extremely rarely. Most of the time, managers are the ones organizing experiences for their teams, but they themselves do not receive anything equivalent. It is a blind spot that Gallup data confirms at a global scale. Usually, when a manager participates in a team building alongside the team, they are still in role. They do not disconnect in the same way. A dedicated experience for them, without the responsibility of coordinating anyone, produces a different effect,\u201d says Oana Pascu, founder of Complice.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n The most popular experiences for increasing engagement in organizations implemented by Complice.ro in the last 3 years include: treasure hunt, megacity construction, Olympic games, cooking workshops, olfactory or jewelry workshops, cocktail masterclasses, dedicated driving grand prix events on circuit, and many others. In 2025, the average investment value of an organization in an experiential initiative was 2,730 euros.<\/p>\n *This is a press release.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Gallup report \u201cState of the Global Workplace 2026\u201d, published in April, shows the largest decline in manager engagement in recent years: from 31% in 2022 to 22% in 2025, a drop of 9 percentage points. Just between 2024 and 2025, manager engagement fell by 5 points, from 27% to 22%. 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