Happiness is often misunderstood as the presence of positive emotions and the absence of negative ones.

• It leads to work cultures that put pressure on people to show false positive emotions.
• Associating being happy with being cheerful all the time creates another problem. Happiness can be classified as less serious and superficial, resulting in universities that avoid developing "happy" graduates.

People bring three dimensions to the job market: Physical, cognitive and emotional. Machines can take over both the physical and cognitive dimension. It is only in the emotional domain where humans still reign.

With increasingly more automated jobs, humans can still add va...