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Sure, say hello to colleagues – friendly relationships are key to workplace happiness – but keep it short.
WooHoo consults on workplace happiness with clients such as Hilton, IBM, Ikea and Shell.
Charles D Kearns, a professor of behavioral science at Pepperdine University's business school, says assigning companywide happiness to a bureaucrat is antithetical to the concept of workplace happiness.
As interest in the field has grown, so have its names: its strategies are known, variously, as "positive business", "employee happiness", "workplace happiness", "employee wellbeing" and "employee engagement".
The narrative of the irrelevance of money to happiness has, unsurprisingly been enthusiastically received by corporate America, some of the best customers of the positive psychology movement, who have eagerly replaced pay-rises with "workplace happiness training", unionization with positive thinking.
The app, which bills itself as a social network out to achieve workplace happiness for its users, runs its applicants through a battery of fun quizzes and assessments that are actually backed up by quite a bit of science.
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Tending bar while hanging out with my friends, I realized the false importance applied to the inconsequential that sometimes goes hand-in-hand with corporate workplaces is anathema to happiness.
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