Organisations across the world are facing a "profitability paradox," where company growth soars while employee wellbeing suffers amid a lack of recognition.  

This is according to a new global report from Workhuman, which polled more than 6,000 workers across 10 countries to look at the state of employee experience, trust, recognition, and readiness for AI.  

The findings revealed a striking paradox in workplaces, where 72% of employees describe their company's profitability and growth as good or great, but tell an entirely different story about their wellbeing.  

According to the report, 51% of employees feel higher pressure than a year ago, while 48% end most of their working days mentally exhausted and drained.  

"The headline numbers on engagement and productivity look healthy," said Tom Libretto, President of Workhuman, in a statement.  

"But when you look beneath them, you find a workforce that is straining under real and mounting pressure. Organisations are performing well. Their people are paying the price. That's not a sustainable equation, and the data tells us exactly where the fault lines are."  

Why recognition matters  

The lack of recognition appears to be a strong driver behind low employee wellbeing scores, according to the findings.  

Less than half of the respondents (41%) said they were recognised in the last quarter, while another 36% strongly agreed that their contributions often go unnoticed.  

"The geography of invisibility maps almost exactly onto the areas where an underinvestment in recognition exists," the report read.  

"These overlapping deficits are not coincidental – they're the predictable product of a system that has not been designed to see its most essential contributors."  

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