"Push the engagement score up and performance follows." It's a multi-billion-dollar corporate obsession — and the dashboard dial it's built on is wired to nothing.

In Lie No. 3 of Lies of HR, we take it apart: how the whole industry misread its own science (correlation is not causation), what longitudinal research actually found about the engagement-performance link, why global engagement can fall to record lows while business output holds steady, and how the myth has mutated into AI surveillance that measures activity instead of value. Then the reframe — fix the work, not the mood.

The voices are AI; the arguments come from Martin Spiteri Schillig's sixteen years in HR.

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