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Key finding: Only 20% of U.S. employees strongly agree that they feel connected to their organization's culture.

Gallup tracks trends in organizational culture, measuring employee perceptions across work locations and leadership levels, as well as the impact on business outcomes such as engagement, retention and performance. Employees who are strongly aligned with their organization’s culture are more engaged, are less burned out, are less likely to leave and perform better.

What We Measure

What Percentage of Employees Feel Connected to Their Workplace Culture?

As of August 2025, 20% of U.S. employees strongly agree that they feel connected to their organization’s culture.

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Key Insight
8 in 10 employees do not feel strongly connected to their workplace culture.

Why Does Organizational Culture Matter to Business Success?

Organizational culture directly affects critical business outcomes such as employee engagement, retention and burnout reduction. An analysis of data from February 2025 found employees who strongly agree that they feel connected to their organization’s culture are:

4.3x as likely to be engaged at work

47% less likely to be watching for job opportunities or actively looking for another job

62% less likely to feel burned out at work very often or always

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The competitive advantage: Organizations with strong cultures outperform on engagement, retention and burnout — three metrics that directly impact profitability and growth.

Are Leaders More Committed to Organizational Culture Than Other Employees?

Yes, employees perceive their leaders as significantly more committed to organizational culture than other groups in the organization. Twenty percent of employees feel connected to their workplace culture, and 20% say their coworkers are committed to the organization’s cultural values — a figure that jumps to 27% when asked about leadership’s commitment to culture.

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What this means: There is a disconnect between leadership's cultural commitment and how that commitment translates into the day-to-day employee experience.

Does Remote Work Damage Organizational Culture?

No, the data show remote work does not damage organizational culture.

As of August 2025, there is virtually no difference in the connection to culture across work locations:

21% exclusively remote

21% hybrid

19% on-site

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What Percentage of Employees Think Remote Work Will Hurt Culture?

Only 15% of individual contributors think remote work will hurt their organizational culture, but leaders are more than twice as concerned.

As of May 2025, significant gaps exist in the anticipated impact of remote work on organizational culture:

  • Individual contributors: 15% say worse, 64% about the same, 21% better
  • Managers: 22% worse, 56% about the same, 22% better
  • Leaders: 31% worse, 52% about the same, 16% better
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What the data show: Leadership’s concern doesn’t match reality. Employees report identical levels of connection to culture across work locations. Leaders’ fears about remote work damaging culture appear to be unfounded.

Results for the Gallup poll of U.S. employees are based on self-administered web surveys of a random sample of adults who are aged 18 and older, working full time or part time for organizations in the United States, and members of the Gallup Panel™. Gallup uses probability-based, random sampling methods to recruit its Panel members. Gallup weighted the obtained samples to correct for nonresponse. Nonresponse adjustments were made by adjusting the sample to match the national demographics of gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education and region. Demographic weighting targets were based on the most recent Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older U.S. population. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.

Gallup defines “exclusively remote” as employees working from home or a remote location 100% of the time. “Hybrid” employees are those who work from home or a remote location 10% to less than 100% of the time. “On-site” employees work from home or a remote location 0% to less than 10% of the time.

In line charts on this webpage, Gallup labels some data points with a year and month. Years that have only one data point labeled with the year and "Jan" (abbreviated for "January") reflect annual survey results. Years that have one data point labeled with a specific month besides January or that have multiple data points labeled with specific months reflect results obtained during the noted month(s). When Gallup’s survey field dates for one data point occur in more than one month, Gallup labels the data point with the ending month.

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