Comments on: Happiness at work at Zappos

By: Doing good at work

Doing good at work — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:26:35 +0000

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By: john

john — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:13:25 +0000

Great Post Alex. I think I should also share another unique one with the readers..
http://jamesrick.com/blog/four-steps-to-lucid-happiness/

By: transitvans

transitvans — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:41:50 +0000

Sounds like the perfect place to work really :)

By: Office Humorist

Office Humorist — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:24:15 +0000

Great post Alex. It’s always inspiring to see companies doing it right. Now if I can just sneak this video to the CEO of most major companies…

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:39:47 +0000

great post alex. Its really inspiring one. keep it up.

By: Chris Young

Chris Young — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:03:20 +0000

Great post Alex!

I have featured your post in my weekly Rainmaker ‘Fab Five’ blog picks of the week (found here: http://www.maximizepossibility.com/employee_retention/2009/07/this-rainmaker-fab-five-blog-picks-of-the-week.html) to share with my readers.

Be well!

By: David

David — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:24:35 +0000

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By: Mike Wagner

Mike Wagner — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:31:30 +0000

Alex, very cool that you posted about Zappos using this ABC Nightline piece.

I show this video to client leadership teams as an example of what work life could be like. Many have never experienced anything like this. Most resist believing a business culture could be like this. They need to see “what could be”.

Always good to read your post and get jazzed.

Keep creating…a story worth repeating,
Mike

By: Torley

Torley — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:10:16 +0000

TRIUMPH, ALEX! THANKS FOR SPEAKING OUT.

More companies should emphasize their happy employees. Otherwise — well, customers simply won’t know, and since people tend to slide towards insecurity and fears when there’s nothing positive put forth, it starts to poison attitudes on both the outside and inside. Just like a work environment that tolerates abuse from customers instead of saying “NO! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE” and focuses on pleasing customers and employees that get along well, making for great business.

But one reason why more companies don’t is similar to the reasons for why there’re so many boring training materials: too many poor examples out there make the uninformed think this is the way it SHOULD be. Until such time “happiness at the work” is the norm (unlikely, I think it’ll always be for exceptional customers), we will see many cases of the foolish and boring leading the meek.

Here’re Linden Lab employees (where I work) doing a tip of the hat to Michael Jackson in our virtual avatar forms: https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/community/support/blog/2009/07/09/moonwalking-lindens