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20%of the world’s employees are engaged at work

Global engagement fell to 20 percent in 2024, only the second decline in twelve years, and managers fell fastest.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025
$438bnlost productivity from disengagement in one year

Gallup prices the engagement drop of 2024 alone at 438 billion dollars in lost productivity worldwide.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025
40%of employees felt a lot of stress yesterday

Four in ten employees worldwide report a lot of stress on any given day, and the number has barely moved since the pandemic peak.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025
13%engagement in Europe, the lowest region on earth

Europe runs the lowest regional engagement Gallup measures, which makes the continent the hardest room and the biggest upside for participative management.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2025
+11%GE Appliances sales growth in a market down 1%

After adopting RenDanHeYi, the US subsidiary grew sales roughly 11 percent in a year its market declined about 1 percent, the cleanest recent P&L for bossless operating.

RenDanHeYi Forum, Qingdao 2026
70kpeople running bossless at Haier

Haier operates 4,000-plus self-managing micro-enterprises across roughly 70,000 employees, the standing answer to "self-management cannot scale".

RenDanHeYi Forum, Qingdao 2026
100+enterprises in Haier’s ZeroDX adoption cohort

The cohort of companies formally experimenting with RenDanHeYi passed one hundred, Embraer and Mercedes-Benz among them, up from about seventy a year earlier.

RenDanHeYi Forum, Qingdao 2026
2/3of management roles cut at Bayer under DSO

Bayer’s own account of Dynamic Shared Ownership states management layers halved and management roles reduced by roughly two thirds across a 100,000-person company.

Bayer, Dynamic Shared Ownership (official)
€2bnBayer’s savings target from self-managed teams

The DSO transformation carries a stated 2 billion euro savings target and 3,500 internally trained champions, which makes it Europe’s largest live test of the model.

Bayer, Dynamic Shared Ownership (official)
500liberated companies at the movement’s peak

Isaac Getz counts some 500 organisations that adopted the liberated-company philosophy, and warns that every one that treated it as a template failed.

Leadermorphosis, Ep. 106 (2026)
1,485workers studied: Gen Z trusts AI the least

Across four generations, the youngest workers showed the lowest trust in large language models and the lowest ratings of their accuracy, against every digital-native assumption.

Four-generation study, on our research radar 2026
67years of MIT Sloan Management Review, now closing

MIT SMR published its final issue in 2026 after 67 years, a marker that management knowledge production is moving from journals to running companies.

MIT Sloan Management Review, 2026
84%of total hiring cost lands after the signature

German firm data shows companies facing scarcity lower hiring standards rather than raise pay, and 84 percent of the true cost arrives after the contract is signed, in onboarding and ramp.

Labour Economics, on our research radar 2026
200+workplace pioneers documented by Corporate Rebels

The Bucket List catalogues more than 200 visited pioneers by country and industry, the closest thing the movement has to an evidence database for "who already does this in my sector".

Corporate Rebels, Bucket List
350practitioners from 30+ countries in Amsterdam

The Corporate Rebels Summit convenes roughly 350 practitioners from more than 30 countries in November, with Ricardo Semler headlining and access by application only.

Corporate Rebels Summit, 2026