How to be happy at work
Giving employees something to smile about at the office may be as simple as offering them more control over their time, its recent survey suggests. One-third (33 percent) of workers polled said greater schedule flexibility would result in increased job satisfaction.
From an article in the Sillicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
I can’t quite decide whether it’s funny or depressing.
I notice that Bigger Picture’s weblog now has contributions from both Liselotte Strøyberg and Finn Kollerup in addition to Ole’s. That’s certainly worth reading (in danish). You might start with Finn’s defense of “annoyingly creative” people. Well stated!
Does the way your office look affect the way you feel at work? Of course it does, and Joel Spolsky knows this and has gone all the way in designing an office that is beautiful and functional.
I need your help: I’m currently writing a book about happiness at work. The book is directed at both managers and employees, and should give the reader a better understanding of what makes people happy at work, as well as a lot of practical tools to use.
If you were reading such a book, what would you like to see in it? Drop me a comment if you have any ideas – good or bad :o)
The happiness at work project is really taking off now. We’re working on a lot of interesting things, and the newest development is that customers have actually started calling me up to arrange seminars and workshops. I just looooooove that.
This afternoon I have a workshop with a large european car manufacturer and on tuesday I’m giving a speech to 50 employees at a danish sports school. I’m really excited about this development – I’ve felt, that all we need is a few paying customers and some good references, and now we have just that. I think there are interesting times ahead, and I can’t wait to see’em.
You sneak up behind a co-worker and disco – without getting caught and with another co-worker videotaping it. Looks like fun.
Robert Levering is the man behind the “Great place to work” book and concept. Here’s a quote from the introduction to the book
…I am more optimistic than ever about the prospects for the workplace. When Milton and I began researching this area nearly two decades ago, great places to work were clearly exceptions to the rule. They often were the result of the vision of extraordinary business leaders like FedEx’s Fred Smith or HP’s David Packard. Today more and more senior managers have become convinced that fostering a great work environment is a business imperative. But perhaps more important, employees are no longer willing to put up with the kind of insensitive and demeaning management attitudes that have typified most workplaces since the dawn of the industrial age.
Grounds for optimism, I’d say. There’s an excellent interview with Robert Levering here.
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