{"id":158,"date":"2026-06-15T10:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insights.teracrowd.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:37:04","slug":"why-unmotivated-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teracrowd.com\/insights\/why-unmotivated-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you’re unmotivated at work. It’s Not Your Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been asking why you’re unmotivated at work, this is for you: you’re not failing the job the job was built to fail you.<\/em><\/p>\n

Clearly, something isn’t working with work in the world today. In this article I’ll show what is happening, why now, and how the situation can improve.<\/p>\n

I’ve been an entrepreneur for nearly 15 years. I’ve gone through extraordinary challenges\u00a0 a lot of pain, a lot of failures, and a lot of successes. My challenges, like everyone else’s, are big every day. Yet I’ve almost never been unmotivated. I’ve solved the challenges that came at me and become better.<\/p>\n

But meanwhile I’ve watched many people around me who don’t even try to solve theirs or who tried and gave up. Until two years ago I blamed them. I thought they were weak or incapable. Now that I’m working on Teracrowd<\/a>, I’ve had to go deeper into their reasons and their worldview\u00a0 and I’ve understood it’s not their fault at all. It’s the fault of the system they’re part of.<\/p>\n

What’s happening to work today<\/h3>\n

The statistics show clearly that something isn’t working. And it’s so massive that it clearly isn’t an individual problem it’s a system problem. Just a few of the hundreds of statistics out there:<\/p>\n

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According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2025<\/em>,<\/a> only 20% of people are motivated at work, 59% are quiet quitting. These two numbers alone are costing the world $10 trillion in lost productivity.<\/p>\n

Another data point, from 2019: the World Health Organization officially classifies<\/a> burnout as an “occupational phenomenon” \u2014 caused by “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” Not a personal disorder. Not a personality trait. An occupational condition.<\/p>\n

The studies are endless. But let me come back to what I see around me.<\/p>\n

I’m very motivated. Whenever people ask how I’m doing, I tell them I’m great, I feel wonderful. Over 80% of them are surprised by this answer, because they don’t hear it often.<\/p>\n

When I talk to people who work, I see two massive forms of dissatisfaction: either they have low pay and are financially unhappy, or they have good pay and are miserable where they are. Of course, not everyone there’s about 20% who don’t fit this classification.<\/p>\n

On the other side, I know many entrepreneurs and many HR managers \u2014 the very people supposed to change this. They complain that their employees don’t perform, don’t try hard enough, that the tactics they follow don’t work. Many tell me they raise salaries without it influencing performance at all. Many tell me how different employee programs \u2014 free gym memberships, food, parties, trips \u2014 work for only a few hours, at most a day, and then everything goes back to reality.<\/p>\n

Now that I’m in the HR industry, I see that every day a new startup or a new solution comes out for this problem. And every year, the situation gets worse. But why?<\/p>\n

What has changed?<\/h2>\n

Our entire system of work, of education\u00a0 was built for a world that no longer exists. Small improvements don’t affect it. They even make it worse. Reimagining it is the only solution.<\/p>\n

The system we’ve built has its origins in 1763. Here are some of the most critical pieces of the system we still live inside today.<\/p>\n

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The first piece of our current system was built so that you learned to sit in rows at fixed times<\/strong> because in 1763 a Prussian king needed factory workers and loyal soldiers.<\/a> The first compulsory schooling system in modern Europe was designed around:<\/p>\n