# The 9 Employee Types

In December 2015 Sean Graber one of the co-founders of Virtuali, wrote and article for Harvard Business Review called "[The Two Sides of Employee Engagement](https://hbr.org/2015/12/the-two-sides-of-employee-engagement)" in which he identified "9 Employee Engagement Archetypes" which categorised employees based on their perceptions of their jobs and their behaviors at work. The model provides a valuable framework for organisations to understand their employees' engagement levels and tailor their strategies accordingly.

1. **All-Star:** Highly engaged, positive, and high-performing
2. **Workhorse:** Dedicated, hardworking, but potentially feeling undervalued or burned out.
3. **Brat:** Disengaged, negative, and resistant to change.
4. **Martyr:** Highly engaged, but suffering in silence due to heavy workload or lack of recognition.
5. **Saboteur:** Disengaged, destructive, and intentionally harming the company.
6. **Cynic:** Disengaged, negative, but not actively harming the company.
7. **Delinquent:** Disengaged, indifferent, and performing poorly.
8. **Drifter:** Disengaged, indifferent, and not actively harming or helping the company.
9. **Underachiever:** Disengaged, negative, but not actively harming the company.

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#### Further Reading

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