PERCEPTYX EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT REPORT 2026
Anticipating Success: Understanding and Activating Employee Engagement
When employees anticipate success, they engage. When they engage, success follows. With that in mind, how can leaders interpret the underlying forces that strengthen or erode engagement and take targeted actions?
By analyzing a ten-year longitudinal analysis of over 20 million global employee survey responses, Perceptyx research reveals what has changed — and what has endured — among the most important drivers of employee engagement and organizational performance.
The findings convey a clear message for leaders: Engagement has long been linked to retention and performance, but its greatest value lies in foresight.
Download the full report to discover:
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Why the top drivers of engagement shifted dramatically in 2025, and the implications for leaders in 2026 and beyond,
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How Perceptyx’s Engagement Model defines the four key gauges of engagement and what impacts they each have on business outcomes,
- Why Engagement Profiles help leaders understand employees’ beliefs, motivations, and experiences, and what that means for performance,
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How to remove barriers to anticipated success and cultivate a growth mindset, &
- Why a personalized Employee Value Proposition (EVP) enables employees to connect the organization’s goals to their own definition of success.