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A satisfied employee is a happy one: Branson
Happy employees are central to the success of a business. We all instinctively know this, but it can be hard to pinpoint why. Nobody would argue that employees should be sad and downtrodden, yet it...
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A happy employee is a successful one: Richard Branson
Happy employees are central to the success of a business. We all instinctively know this, but it can be hard to pinpoint why. Nobody would argue that employees should be sad and downtrodden, yet it...
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Smart companies now survey employee satisfaction daily, not annually
(Andrew Rich/Getty) Do you feel happy today? Would you recommend your workplace to a job-seeking friend? Does your manager really listen to you? How positive are you feeling about your work-life...
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Stop wasting your time on junk productivity hacks
(Peter Cade/Getty) In 1925, Lucky Strike cigarettes launched advertisements touting a glorious benefit of smoking: weight loss. The print campaign advised women to “Reach for a Lucky instead of a...
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How do you improve happiness at work? Start by measuring it
“How happy are we?” “THIS happy” (Jose Luiz Pelaez/Getty) Jim Moss is a guy whose glass is definitely half full. He’s the sort of person who starts emails with “Happy Monday!” and manages to sound as...
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3 things managers can do to build happiness in the workplace
(Hero Images/Getty) Kim Cameron, a professor at the University of Michigan who studies positive organizational culture, says “virtuous practices” can help companies succeed in a variety of ways,...
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Even happy offices still have professional boundaries…right?
Not everyone responds the same way to attempts to boost workplace cheer. (Fuse/Getty) So maybe a happy workplace isn’t for everyone. Or at least, not the sort of relentlessly cheerful environment we...
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Happiness at work is a habit you can practice. Here’s how
(Hero Images/Getty) Keep a gratitude journal. A growing pile of research links expressive writing with positivity and feelings of wellbeing. If the notion of journaling sounds a little too...
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How offices can forecast happiness to head off problems early
(BraunS/Getty) “How happy are you today?” There was the question again—it pops up regularly when you open the Plasticity Labs app—and by Week 3 of our Happy Office Project, my answers started to...
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A happy office is about more than just adding a ping-pong table
(Sydney Roberts/Digital Vision/Getty) John Stix founded what may be one of the happiest companies in Canada. And thanks to the Plasticity Labs app that our own office is now experimenting with, he has...
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Statistics Canada says that Vancouver is Canada’s unhappiest city
View of downtown Chicoutimi, one of three boroughs of Saguenay, Que., the city showing Canada’s highest levels of life satisfaction. (Chicoutimi) Sanguenay, about 200 kilometers north of Quebec City,...
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The unspoken loneliness of working from home
(G. Merrill/Getty) If you’ve never worked from home, you probably envy people who do—at least a little. They’re the lucky dogs (maybe you use a different word) who can take conference calls in their...
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Truly productive people always leave some blank spots in their day
(Anthony Lee/Getty) If productivity were a religion, David Allen would be its high priest. Scratch that. He might the One True King of productivity. And his 2002 New York Times bestselling book,...
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How G Adventures aims to keep staffers thinking creatively
1 of 7 Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+ Share Email Previous Next (Jennifer Roberts) G Adventures founder Bruce Poon Tip As a dedicated world traveller—154 countries and counting—Bruce Poon Tip...
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Why you should praise employees even when they’re doing badly
(Illustration by Peter Arkle) When he was running General Electric, Jack Welch famously fired the bottom 10% of company performers and boasted about squeezing as much juice as possible out of the...
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How Plasticity is hacking happiness to help companies work harder
From left: Plasticity Labs founders Jim Moss, Lance Mohring and Jennifer Moss. (Portrait by Raina + Wilson; Wardrobe styling by Nadia Pizzimenti/JudyInc.com; Makeup and hair by Shawna Lee/JudyInc.com;...
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Why developing friendships at work is so important
(Morsa Images/Getty) Anyone familiar with office life knows that it’s not exactly a non-stop thrill ride: the ceaseless emails, the unnecessarily confusing business jargon, the knock-down, drag-out...
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To truly be happier, we need to redefine what success means
“The Happiness Equation” author Neil Pasricha pictured in his favourite bakery in Toronto. (Colin McConnell/Toronto Star/Getty) In 2010, Toronto writer Neil Pasricha transformed his relentlessly upbeat...
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How to express frustration productively
Techify CEO Brendan Howe. Brendan Howe, President and CEO of Techify (and a sleep-deprived dad of two small children), explains his strategies for leading a team when he’s in a rotten mood: I’m not a...
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How to be happier at work
“The Happiness Equation” author Neil Pasricha (Portrait by Scarlet O’Neill) The feel-good guru behind the bestsellers The Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome on how to lift your mood on the...
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Donald Trump’s election has measurably decreased workplace happiness
Clinton supporters watching results come in on November 8, 2016. (Toni L. Sandys/Washington Post/Getty) Late Tuesday night, as the count for Donald Trump ticked toward the required 270 electoral...
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