Every year the polling company Gallup asks employees in Germany about their bond with their employer. In the 2024 survey of 1,700 employees, 78 percent had a low emotional bond. Gallup’s German press release describes them simply as people die Dienst nach Vorschrift machen, who work to rule. Only 9 percent had a high bond. In the survey for 2025 the figures were 10 percent high, 77 percent low and 13 percent none. In this use, the term describes a lasting state of mind, not a protest.