Performance | Why motivation is a struggle for younger staff

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a noticeable impact on employee engagement across workforces. Whether this has been due to growing health and wellbeing concerns or the constraints of working from home, many employees have struggled to feel both connected to their employer and to feel mentally prepared to work.

Yet, new research released by Lane4 – which surveyed over 1,000 GB workers and was carried out by YouGov – has revealed the age demographic that is suffering most from a lack of motivation at work.

According to the research, 44% of employees under the age of 35-years-old said that a lack of motivation had been hindering their workplace performance since the start of the pandemic in March.

The data also revealed that the performance of younger workers is twice as likely to be impacted by a lack of motivation than that of 45 to 54-year-olds (22%), and significantly more likely to be impacted by a lack of motivation than the average for all age groups (28%).