While we can all have our bad days at work, it seems that many of us are more than just a bit down sometimes when we’re in the office. According to a new survey, one quarter of us are unhappy in our current job.
What’s more, the research by UK Power found that one in five of us would actually like to change career, rather than just look for another role in the same industry.
If your company has offices in Liverpool, you may want to chat to your staff here as the north-west city was named as one of the top five places with the lowest job satisfaction.
Liverpool came in fifth place, with 28 per cent of workers in the area unhappy with their jobs. This is still better than Belfast though, where 55 per cent of people surveyed said they’d rather be working in a different role.
Nick Heath, head of insight at UK Power, said they were “surprised” to find that so many people wanted to change their careers. However, he added that it’s important for people to have the “resources available” to enable them to make an informed decision about their future, whatever changes they want to make in their lives.
One way to improve job satisfaction is by giving people more autonomy in their roles. This was the finding of research conducted by the University of Birmingham, Business School earlier this year.
The team here found that people with greater control over their workload and the pace at which they work tended to be much happier than those with little or no control over these factors.