While most of us would agree that we would rather have employees be happy than unhappy, so complex is the nature of happiness that it often seems something that is beyond the duty of an employer to provide. After all, as Richard Easterlin famously describes in his eponymous paradox, and in his recent book An Economist’s Lessons on Happiness, financial wellbeing often has a pretty limited impact on our overall happiness.
This should not deter us, however, not least as research from the University of Oxford found that happy workers are around 13% more productive than their gloomier peers. “We found that when workers are happier, they work faster by making more calls per hour worked and, importantly, convert more calls to sales,” the researchers say.
The researchers mirror Easterlin’s finding that paid work has little to do with our happiness, however, so what does? Insight may come from Harvard academic Tal-Ben Shahar, who outlines what he believes to be the key to happiness in his recently published book Happiness Studies.
Read more here https://www.forbes.com/sites/pavelkrapivin/2022/02/18/5-components-to-achieving-happiness-at-work/?sh=265846ba48e5
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