09/09/2026
61 percent of workers are not burned out. They are languishing.
That is the finding from the 2026 Workplace Well-Being Report out of the University of Illinois. Not thriving. Not in crisis. Just running on empty while still showing up.
Languishing is the most expensive state in your company, because it hides. These people hit their deadlines. They join the standup. They look healthy on every dashboard you have.
Then one day they are gone. Or they have quietly stopped trying.
Engagement scores miss it. Attendance misses it. But how people sound when they talk about their work starts to change long before the resignation letter does.
Voicesense has run 23,681 mental health assessments and helped support more than 25,000 people. The goal is simple. Notice the drift while there is still time to act.
If most of your team is neither thriving nor failing, how would you even know?