Community | One in four employees 'feel like outsiders' at work

More than a quarter of U.K employees feel like outsiders at work, with a third not considering their workplace to be a ‘community’, according to new research.

This is despite 65% of U.K. employees wanting to feel a strong sense of belonging at work.

These are the findings from O.C. Tanner’s 2023 Global Culture Report which collected and analysed the perspectives of over 36,000 employees, leaders, HR practitioners, and business executives from 20 countries around the world, including 4,653 from the U.K.

According to the report, there are eight key factors that provide a workplace with a strong sense of community, including shared goals, commitment, communication, feedback, camaraderie, trust, adaptation and unity. Of these, U.K. employees ranked camaraderie/relationship with team members as the most important aspect for nurturing belonging (cited by 73% of respondents).