In order to make it easy to move employees from one department to another, realized that it had to provide greater skills to its employees. The firm then started various employee training programs last year. In the programs, employees were given the freedom to get trained on a skill of their choice for one hour every day post their working hours for a period of three months. Despite a warm reception in the initial days, the programs did not succeed as expected because ______.

Which of the following best completes the passage?

A) most employees were not interested in the training programs
B) the employees were not inspired to attend training after their working hours
C) the training proved inadequate for practical, smooth transition from one department to the other
D) the employees did not like most of the training programs
E) the employees were not interested in changing departments