For many office worker out there, working is a process that kill your time, health, interest, and most importantly, your life. There are people who are capable to seek interest in their own job and find ways to enjoy their work. This is something depending on individual but more importantly, it also depends if the work place provide the opportunity for them to do so.
While many employers wanted to identify the reason why employees sometimes feeling demotivated, here are some of the common reasons that employees felt demotivated in the workplace.
1. No guidance or interest to motivate employees
This is something that I can’t find it in Malaysia. In fact, many people found it funny to motivate the employee. And yeah, all they assume is that employee should be self motivating but the truth is, people here don’t really do that so employee often stay in the company until they used up their interest and passion, then look for another company.
2. Massive Workloads
High workload is normal, but doesn’t mean that it’s okay to keep pushing employees to work non-stop and stay late to finish everything. Work tasks that can’t be finished is usually a sign that the company has problem with managing work tasks, but the employee is the one to take the pressure and impact.
3. Position power is heavily practiced
Understanding that you are a superior, doesn’t mean people are okay to accept your command, judgment, and scolding. No one like to work under an environment where they have to be afraid and concern of their superior judgment and thinking all the time, especially when the superior think that he or she has the absolute rights to talk and behave whatever he or she want.
4. No one care if you are tired or hungry
Most of the time they care about the progress of your work and results. You don’t really find people who ask you to go for lunch and then only continue working, or asking if you had your lunch. Some bosses don’t even care if it’s lunch time, you will be asked to finish the work before they let you go.
5. You are asked to work when you are on leave
How frustrating it is to be asked to work out there when you are in the mood to relax and tend to put all work matter aside? No need to further describe I suppose, but it’s nothing surprising to find bosses doesn’t really care if their employees are on leave when comes to work.
6. Your work plan are so full for six month that it’s difficult to apply for leave
When you wanted to ask when is it alright for you to take leave, they would tell you all your work schedule from now until six months later. I’m not surprise that many companies out there wish to implement “zero leave” system so that their employees can stay in the office keep working like robot. But the thing is, we are not robot, and even machine need down time to rest. There is no way employees can find any enjoyment in working without rest and vacation.
7. You are given a task on Friday, and they want to see the result on Monday
That’s literally means: “I want you to work over the weekend to finish this”. This is nothing uncommon for some problematic company with Monday to Friday working hours. It’s frustrating as this is not even considered OT.
8. Your superior keep nagging rather than listening
It’s still really common to find people of higher position to nag all the time rather than listening to what people trying to say. This is extremely effective to make employee think that their opinion is not important and they should just follow whatever superior said like a puppet.
9. Praises and rewards are rare and minimal
People always think that salary is the only reward for employee. It’s not that people are greedy so they never think that money is enough, but people wish to earn things with better value instead of spending all their life and effort only for money.
10. Frequent last minute work before or during end of working hour
Imagine it’s finally 4.55 pm and it’s just 5 minutes away to step out from the office to rest & relax, and then your boss come to you and ask you to finish some urgent work before going back. And this is nothing uncommon as it keep going on many times. When employees can’t even feel relaxing around the end of working hour, the last thing they feel and think before they leave the office is the uneasy feeling that make them feel unmotivated to step into the office on the next day.
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