The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Category: Woohoo Labs

  • How common are good work days and what makes them good? See the results of our international survey.

    How common are good work days and what makes them good? See the results of our international survey.

    We all have good days and bad days at work and being happy at work is not just about avoiding having bad days at work – it requires having mostly good days, where we actively enjoy our work.

    But how often do people around the world have good work days and what makes them good? Is it about compensation, perks and promotions – or do we value other things more?

    Our brand new survey of more than 2,500 people worldwide shows how frequent good work days are and reveals their main causes.

    For instance, 1 in 3 say they have a good work day every day or almost every day – while 22% experience at most 2-3 good work days a month!

    Here are the most important findings from our survey.

    And here’s a video where we explain the survey and the main findings:

     

  • Last chance to take our International Survey on Happiness At Work

    Over 2,000 people have already taken our International Survey on Happiness At Work and we’re starting to see some fascinating results already.

    The final report showing which countries are happier at work and what makes them happy will be ready in time for the International Week of Happiness At Work which  runs from September 24-28.

    This means that the deadline for taking the survey is September 10, so we have time to crunch the numbers.

    So if you haven’t taken the survey already, please go here and do it – it only takes 4 minutes and you may even learn something about what makes you happy at work.

    And please share the survey with others – the more replies we get, the more relevant the results will be.

  • Join our international survey on happiness at work

    Join our international survey on happiness at work

    We want to know what makes people happy at work in different countries and you can help by participating in our international survey.

    The questionnaire only has 11 questions and just takes 3-4 minutes to complete. Take it right here. You may even learn something about what makes you happier at work.

    Also, please share the survey with others – the more people take it, the more useful the results will be.

    We’ll be releasing the findings in time for the International Week of Happiness At Work on September 24-28.

    UPDATE: In just the first 24 hours, over 100 people from 23 countries took the survey. That’s fantastic!

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  • Our new study shows bad work days are too common and what causes them

    Our new study shows bad work days are too common and what causes them

    Almost 2 out of 3

    Everyone has bad days at work – those really frustrating and stressful days that we just want to be over. But how how often do we have bad work days and what causes them?

    Our brand new survey of over 700 employees worldwide shows that bad work days are disturbingly common and reveals some of the main causes.

    See the main findings here – it’s pretty fascinating stuff.

     

  • 4 exciting research projects from Woohoo Labs

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    We are currently working on 4 R&D projects that we hope will generate new important knowledge about happiness at work.

    We are really excited about the results and we’re doing the studies under a fairly rigorous scientific approach. It’s not like we’re expecting any of this to be peer reviewed, but we’re trying really hard to conduct the studies objectively.

    Here are the 4 projects.

    1: Client impact of our work

    We’re doing a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the effect of the work we’ve done for our clients over the last 2 years.

    Outcomes:

    • An increased knowledge of the effect of our work.
    • Knowledge of which of our offerings and tools work best.
    • Information to have even more of an impact in the future.

    2: Analysis of our happiness surveys

    Some years ago we developed an informal happiness at work survey that we’ve been using with some of our clients, mostly in Denmark. In all, the survey has been taken 15,000 times, giving us some cool data to crunch.

    Outcomes:

    • A benchmark for happiness at work across Danish workplaces.
    • Statistics on which of 9 different factors (like co-workers, managers, praise, etc) correlate most with happiness at work.
    • A wealth of other statistics like happiness levels in private vs. public workplaces, big or small workplaces or even how happiness changes over the year or during the week.

    HeartCount – measuring happiness at work

    We’re beta testing a new team-based way to measure happiness at work where team members answer 3 simple questions weekly. It’s called HeartCount and you can read all about it here.

    Outcomes:

    • Testing a method to give teams useful real-time feedback on how the team is feeling.
    • Does that feedback itself influence team happiness?
    • Can you keep the team engaged in the survey and response rates high?

    Intervention study on happiness at work

    What actually makes a team happier? We are testing the effect of 4 different fairly small interventions on 1,200 people in 70 teams from different Danish workplaces. We’ll be measuring team happiness before the study, then each team gets a simple happiness tool which they use for 4 weeks. We measure happiness again after 2 weeks and also after 4 weeks.

    Main question we’re trying to answer:

    Outcomes:

    • Can you increase a team’s happiness with fairly small interventions.
    • Which interventions actually end up being used.
    • Which interventions have an effect an how much.

    All of this is very much a new direction for us. We’ve been using other peoples’ studies for ages so we thought it was about time for us to contribute some research of our own.

    Got any questions or suggestions? Write a comment – we’d love to hear what you think.