Third of employees were left unmotivated in 2015

Employers failed to motivate their staff last year, with 37% of workers claiming they cannot remember a single instance where they felt driven in 2015.

Research by Red Letter Days for Business has revealed that 24% of staff feel that they were not motivated in their careers. Nearly half of the UK workforce said they had negative feelings about their jobs.

The study - titled Employee motivation: Who came out on top in 2015? - found that 14% of workers loved every second of their job. 40% said that, though it was a struggle, they still loved aspects of their role. However, 27% claimed to have no emotion toward work.

A further seven per cent cited their career as “all work and no play”, whilst five per cent said they didn’t like any aspect of their role in 2015.