March 24 (UPI) -- Workers are feeling less engaged than at any other point in the last decade while their sense of struggling in the workplace is the worst it has ever been, a new Gallup poll says.

About 49% of workers said they are struggling at the end of 2025, compared to 46% who say they are thriving, the poll published Tuesday said. It is the first time since Gallup began surveying worker wellbeing in 2009.

The survey was conducted between Oct. 30 and Nov. 13.

The gap between thriving and struggling narrowed at an accelerated pace beginning in 2024, though more workers still felt they were thriving. At the beginning of 2022, more than 50% of workers reported a sense of thriving in their lives.

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