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Happiness at work doesn't just depend on your employer
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The benefit of happy employees
- Happy employees are productive employees and productive employees generate more profit.
- Happy employees don’t look to jump ship. This cuts recruitment costs, further increasing profits.
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Fostering well-being
There is a real difference between happiness gimmicks and working in a well-being culture:
- one that values people
- one that manages them by praise and reward rather than fault-finding
- one that enables them to work flexibly and provides them with work-life balance.
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Working remotely
An added benefit here is the implied trust and autonomy of allowing staff to work remotely may contribute more to their happiness than dragging them into an office stocked with free coffee and fruit.
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Personality types
Research shows that employee happiness is determined by their personalities as well. Employees with the highest number of good days at work:
- scored highly on positive emotions and enthusiasm
- lower on depressive tendencies like sadness, hopelessness, and loneliness
- those who “begin tasks and carry them through”.
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Happiness
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Workplace Happiness defined
In a fundamental sense, workplace happiness comes when:
- We enjoy doing the tasks assigned to us
- We feel right about the people we are working with
- We are happy with the financial benefits we get from the job
- We have the scope of improving our existing skills
- We feel respected and acknowledged at work
Importance Of Happiness At Work
Happy employees are compulsory for a growing business.
A study on organizational success revealed that employees who feel happy in the workplace are 65% more energetic than employees who don’t. They are two times more productive and are more likely to sustain their jobs over a long period of time.
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Finding happiness at work
Not only is it possible to find happiness at work, but that doing so is unambiguously good.
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Portrait of people who are happy in life
- They have an easy time feeling good and recovering from adversity
- they have close, supportive social connections
- they believe that their presence in the world matters.
4 key pillars of happiness at work
- Purpose. Our purpose is a reflection of our core values, and we feel more purposeful at work when our everyday behaviors and decisions are aligned with those values.
- Engagement. Prioritise some fun. Take ownership of decisions that affects you. Adopt a flow at work.
- Resilience. The ability to handle, adapt to, and productively learn from setbacks, failures, and disappointments.
- Kindness. Being kind at work involves treating others with dignity and respect, extending empathy and compassion, practicing gratitude, and constructively managing conflicts.