Not only does job dissatisfaction damage employee performance, but it can damage company performance, too.

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Hard-pressed workers are feeling grouchy: workforce surveys report record levels of job dissatisfaction.

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Several surveys over the past couple of years have proclaimed that American job satisfaction is at its lowest level in two decades across all generations, with Generation Y exhibiting particularly high job dissatisfaction.

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Cevat Ones, a former deputy chief of Turkey's national intelligence outfit, insists the affair is an MHP inside job, prompted by dissatisfaction with Mr Bahceli.

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Dissatisfaction with how MPs are doing their job rose by eight points, to 44%, over the past year, according to a survey by Ipsos MORI for the Hansard Society.

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According to the Gallup Organization, 32% of employees surveyed reported dissatisfaction with their level of on-the-job stress.

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But, before you quit, ask yourself if the reasons for your dissatisfaction will actually be cured if you quit your job.

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They include the lowest levels of job engagement, the highest levels of stress, and higher levels of dissatisfaction with managers.

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The researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen found that the rise in dissatisfaction was particularly strong among older workers aged over 50, though the decline in job satisfaction has happened at all skill levels and in companies of all different sizes.

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