15 Ideas for Keeping Your Employees Happy
How motivated are your workers? Inc.com asked 15 successful young entrepreneurs to share secrets to sparking happiness and company loyalty around the office.
How motivated are your workers? Inc.com asked 15 successful young entrepreneurs to share secrets to sparking happiness and company loyalty around the office.
WRITTEN BY: Ryan Vanderbilt | Co.Exist
As work becomes our lives, it becomes more and more important for us to be happy at work. But few of us are. A revolution in workplace happiness would make us healthier and more productive. How can we get there?
FOR MY JOB I SPENT 300 DAYS TRAVELLING THE WORLD LAST YEAR. I MET A LOT OF HAPPY PEOPLE. WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY LIVE WILL SURPRISE YOU.
The other day, as I took a taxi ride across Manhattan, the driver was pondering the state of the world. “I can’t believe all these disasters happening everywhere,” he said. “If it’s not a flood, it’s a tsunami. There are fires and hurricanes and earthquakes… then there are riots and bombs and wars and shootings.” He kept shaking his head as he muttered, “What is this world coming to?”
by Shawn Achor | 8:16 AM June 23, 2011 | HBR Blog Network
Nearly every company in the world gives lip service to the idea that “our people are our greatest asset.” Yet when the Conference Board Survey came out earlier this year, employees were the unhappiest they have been in their 22 years of tracking job satisfaction rates. Around the same time, CNNMoney reported a survey that indicated 84% of Americans are unhappy with their current job. And earlier this month, Mercer’s “What’s Working” survey found that one in three US employees are serious about leaving their current jobs.
Why is this lack of happiness at work important?
by Jules Peck | 3:55 PM September 19, 2011 | HBR Blog Network
A new vision of what it means to be prosperous and to flourish as individuals and societies is taking hold in parts of the business world. It’s inspired by the coming together of disparate disciplines including positive psychology, welfare economics, hedonomics, neuroscience, and marketing.
by Jules Peck | 3:55 PM September 19, 2011 | HBR Blog Network
A new vision of what it means to be prosperous and to flourish as individuals and societies is taking hold in parts of the business world. It’s inspired by the coming together of disparate disciplines including positive psychology, welfare economics, hedonomics, neuroscience, and marketing.

