There’s a good chance they aren’t.  According to a recent Gallup report titled “The State of the American Workplace: Employee Engagement Insights for U.S. Business Leaders,” 70 percent of workers aren’t reaching their potential at work.  The Gallup study found that the biggest cause of lack of employee engagement is a company’s selection of managers.  Bad management tends to correlate with active disengagement.  Additional interesting findings include the following: employees are slightly more engaged and log more hours when they are allowed to work remotely; college-educated employees tend to be less engaged than other workers; among the different generations of employees in the workplace, so-called “Millenials” are the most likely to leave their jobs in the next year if the market improves; engagement has a greater impact on employees’ well-being than perks such as vacation time and flexible hours; and employee engagement flourishes in smaller, tight-knit environments.  Gallup suggests three ways to accelerate employee engagement: (1) select the right people, (2) develop employees’ strengths, and (3) enhance employees’ well-being.  Click here to read the Gallup report.