“If employees are treated right, they treat the outside world right, the outside world uses the company’s product again, and that makes the shareholders happy.” Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines What is all the talk of employees’ happiness about? Google swear by it,...
In the high-tech world, innovators are increasingly turning towards meditation and mindfulness to cope with the ever-changing and stressful environment. Employees at firms such as Facebook and Google congregate at conferences like Wisdom 2.0 to learn about the latest...
This is another post by guest blogger Elinor Jansen at Happy. Her articles summarise current research on employee happiness, and this week she discusses how dual career tracks can lead to happier managers and employees. Gallup recently found that the single largest...
Guest blogger Elinor Jansen updates us with a summary of Gallup’s latest (2015) study on the relationship between firm performance, organisational structures and employee engagement. Decision-makers understand there is a link between how well they manage their...
Elinor Schmitz-Jansen is studying for an MSc in Management at Imperial College. She is currently working at Happy, researching academic studies of happiness and meaning in work. This is her first report: Work is boring, exhausting, a necessary evil, and too much work...