Top 16 Reasons Why Employees are Unhappy!

We’ve talk to peo­ple of all organ­i­sa­tions and all walks of life as an employee and we’ve gather a list of things that can made them unhappy at work.  It seemed that most peo­ple (other than those feel­ing good at work) are suf­fer­ing from the same type of prob­lems result­ing to their unhap­pi­ness.  Let’s take a peek of the top sev­en­teen rea­sons that employ­ees are unhappy and thus unmo­ti­vated to work or even pro­cras­ti­nate dur­ing office hours!

1. You are (or you feel) under­paid as per what the mar­ket rate is offering.
2. You feel that you are not com­pen­sated as per what the title or posi­tion you are hold­ing should be given.
3. You feel that you should be given a bet­ter per­for­mance bonus after a year end appraisal review.
4. You feel that the com­pany should be giv­ing a bet­ter organ­i­sa­tion per­for­mance bonus because of the increased sales orders how­ever they didn’t.
5. You feel that office pol­i­tics is intox­i­cat­ing the entire organ­i­sa­tion at all lev­els (even at senior man­age­ment level) and you are sick of it.
6. You are not doing some­thing you like at work.
7. You are forced to do some­thing that is against your principles
8. You do not have the free­dom to choose what you can work on
9. You do not like bureau­cracy and red tapes
10. You feel the entire sys­tem is unfair
11. You feel your boss is unfair
12. Your boss lacks judge­ment
13. You feel that you deserved bet­ter appraisal
14. Your boss lacks lead­er­ship and unable to give you clear direc­tions of the team.
15. Your boss does not appre­ci­ate your effort and suggestion
16. Your boss is a boot-licker to his stake­hold­ers such as his supe­rior and his cus­tomers which he can do things that are dig­nity defy­ing and against your principles

Have any of the above answered your ques­tion of unhap­pi­ness in the office?  Or if you are an employer or man­ager, do you feel the neg­a­tive sen­ti­ment at work and these are the rea­sons behind this neg­a­tive sentiment?

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