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. We’ve determined five key ways to happiness at work that will improve your employees' work experience, bring change to your team and grow your company in a post-pandemic world.
We publish regular articles 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.
In today’s workplace, teams play a crucial role not only in driving business success but also in shaping the happiness of employees. Research consistently shows that people thrive in environments where they feel supported, valued, and connected. But what exactly makes teams so important for both individual well-being and organizational success?
Nic Marks shares how happiness is a key signal for how we’re doing, both at work and in life. He explains why feeling just “OK” can hold us back and offers practical tips to boost happiness and get unstuck.
Have you ever felt that a system in your organization was negatively effecting your experience at work?
Have you ever had really low energy in life? Were you feeling detached from things, like you were drifting? When it was happening, did you struggle to focus and feel your productivity at work had dropped?
It's been an up and down few years to say the least. To stay competitive in challenging times, leaders need to ensure they have the right people. And, while the eNPS (employee Net Promoter Score) can help track whether teams are working well together, it is not a headline indicator of employee experience, and it should not be how companies think of wellbeing.
Whilst the pandemic is over, the way we work has been permanently impacted. Over 50% of people in the UK now work remotely at least one day a week, with 15% being fully remote. But how did the pandemic impact our happiness at work?
The results of the biggest annual happiness survey in the world were released earlier this week: the 2023 World Happiness Report (WHR). It covers over 100 countries and ranks them by how happy their citizens are. Carrying out over 100 representative samples of national populations every year is a hugely complex statistical task. And are the results really that useful? I think it’s questionable.
Leading a team is never easy, but it’s especially hard when you are under constant time pressure. Delivering results is always going to seem more urgent than looking after the people side of team leadership. Yet if things go wrong and you end up with an unhappy team, then everything becomes a lot more stressful. So, investing a little time every week can save a lot of time (and stress) over coming weeks.
People want the great positive experiences at work, but they also want to avoid the bad, unfair, disrespectful ones.
Recent years have created a fertile environment for burnout and brought about shifts in working habits that organizations are still navigating. Traditional companies are working harder than ever, while the increase in hybrid or remote-first cultures presents its own challenges.