Australian workplaces are suffering from a lack of employee engagement, with new research from Gallup revealing that only 23% of workers are truly engaged at work.

The widespread disengagement was estimated to cost the Australian economy around AU$223 billion in lost productivity annually, News.com reported.

The employee disengagement crisis ties into a broader national concern -- Australia's ongoing productivity downturn. Over the past eight years, productivity has trended downward, with the decline........

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