Relation between perceived layoffs and well-being most pronounced in Americas
Worldwide, workers who say their employer is currently letting workers go are less likely to be "thriving" than those who say their employer is currently hiring, according to Gallup surveys conducted in more than 100 countries in 2008 and 2009.
Gallup measures evaluative well-being using a measure based on the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale, which asks people to evaluate their present and future lives on a scale with steps numbered from 0 to 10, where 0 is the worst possible life and 10 is the best possible life. Those that rate today a "7" or higher and the future an "8" or higher are considered to be "thriving." Those that rate today and the future a "4" or lower on the scale are considered to be "suffering." "Net thriving" is the difference between people who are "thriving" and "suffering" in a given group. Country data are weighted by their populations to reflect worldwide figures.
The global data reveal that workers who believe their companies are hiring new workers are 27 percentage points more likely to be thriving than suffering, nearly double the gap for workers at companies laying workers off (14 point).
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