HR professionals are among the UK’s most disillusioned employee says the latest Badenoch & Clark Employment Study. Only banking and financial services workers feeling less valued in the workplace.

Only 57% of workers in those sectors feel valued at all, with one in four banking professionals (22%) feeling that they’re easily replaceable.

Two key factors appear to be driving the trend: a job market swollen with candidates and employers focussing on business critical issues at the expense of basic good talent management practices. The result is a talent market that is becoming increasingly commoditised.

Within different demographic groups, 50% of those ages 55 and above within the workforce as a whole feel that their employer recognises their contributions to the company. Workers aged 25 to 34 are close behind, with 48% feeling that they are valued.