Happiness is the workplace of the future. Our collection of comprehensive articles will help you rethink employee wellbeing and create strategies to measure and improve the employee experience across your organization.
Employee engagement is a stagnant idea. And while “How have you felt at work this week?” may feel like an awkward question to ask employees, talking about people’s emotional experience of work — their happiness — and measuring it in the workplace can lead to improved team morale, greater resilience, more innovation and greater productivity.
Happiness is the workplace of the future, but creating a positive organizational culture is not easy.
Creating a positive organizational culture is not easy. We’ve established five key ways to happiness at work which will improve your employees’ experience of work, bring real change to your team and grow your company.The Five Ways to Happiness at Work are a lens through which we can takestock of our organizations as we reintegrate our workforce in this post-pandemic world.
Every week, we publish on how to improve your workplace culture keeping track of the latest people trends, so you’ll know how to make your company a happier place.
When, at Friday Pulse, we realized that the pandemic wasn’t ending any time soon, we knew we needed to do something for our team. With people feeling overworked and on the brink of burnout, we switched to a 4-day work week to astounding results. Here’s a look at what happened.
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report found that nearly 7 out of 10 people are struggling or suffering in their overall lives, and nearly 80% of people are disengaged from work. While some of this can be attributed to COVID situations, it’s also part of a growing trend. People aren’t happy.
Since the arrival of COVID-19, we have learned to live with varying levels of restrictions and the ongoing arrival of new threats and disruptions.
Now, with the end of the pandemic feeling so close yet so far, many feel trapped by uncertainty. Unknowns can be psychologically disturbing, and frustration is a sure-fire way to kill creativity. So, how you can help your people through challenging times?
While we have learnt to live with restrictions, yet we are faced with the ongoing arrival of new threats and disruptions. Most recently, thousands of people across the UK have been “pinged” by the NHS and notified of their need to self-isolate. This has made for a frustrating scenario which has, once again, raised anxiety levels.
The pandemic proved that we could work remotely, yet it also proved that we need to be together as well. Yet, asking people if they want to return to the office before they’ve actually tried returning is an inherently flawed approach. So, what is the right way forward?
Boredom is not only a joy killer. It’s a job killer. But when we think about why people leave jobs, we often focus on stress, not boredom. Here’s why we need an ‘interest’ stimulus.
