{"id":45954,"date":"2023-07-11T21:39:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T04:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/?p=45954"},"modified":"2023-07-11T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T04:46:32","slug":"work-addiction-81-bill-annually-employees-not-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/emod-blog-3ptyvid\/third-party\/work-addiction-81-bill-annually-employees-not-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Work: Substance Abuse Cost Business $81 Billion Annually and Gallup Reports 64% Employees are Not Engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<a name=\"content\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\">\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work: Substance Abuse Cost Business $81 Billion Annually and Gallup Reports 64% Employees are Not Engaged<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>70 percent of substance abusers that remain employed<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <strong>National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, <\/strong>the cost of addiction to employers is $81 billion each year.&nbsp; \u2026&nbsp; <strong>Of those 70 percent of substance abusers that remain employed, more than 42 percent admit that their work productivity suffers due to their use.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>That Cost Business $81 Billion Annually and Growing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), <strong>more than 70 percent of people with a substance use disorder maintain employment in some form, <\/strong>which means that employers are being impacted by this disease and its consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/~\/media\/assets\/2015\/03\/substanceusedisordersandtheroleofthestates.pdf\">Pew Charitable Trusts<\/a>, the <strong>annual<\/strong> <strong>economic impact <\/strong>of illicit drugs in the <strong>U.S. $193 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gallup Reports \u2013 US Employee Engagement Trends<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">33% Engaged<br>64% Not Engaged<br>of which 18% are actively not engaged<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026based on over <strong><em>50 years of employee engagement research,<\/em><\/strong> Gallup knows that engaged employees produce better business outcomes than other employees -- across industry, company size and nationality, and in good economic times and bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But only 15% of employees worldwide and 35% in the U.S. fall in the \"engaged\" category.\u201d<br><br>https:\/\/www.gallup.com\/workplace\/285674\/improve-employee-engagement-workplace.aspx#ite-357473<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Work: Substance Abuse Cost Business $81 Billion Annually and Gallup Reports 64% Employees are Not Engaged 70 percent of substance abusers that remain employed According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/emod-blog-3ptyvid\/third-party\/work-addiction-81-bill-annually-employees-not-engaged\/\" title=\"Work: Substance Abuse Cost Business $81 Billion Annually and Gallup Reports 64% Employees are Not Engaged\">[...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-stream-sbs-scroll.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emod-blog-3ptyvid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45965,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45954\/revisions\/45965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}