Research
Summary: Paying attention to positive emotions can reduce the impact of stressful situations. You might not believe paying attention to emotions has much to do with work, but some research studies have shown negative work cultures can impact the functioning and health of families connected to employees. In other words, workers take the stress and [...]
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Summary: Eating lunch outdoors increased worker happiness in a research study. Key Take Aways – Getting away from one’s work desk at mid day can be a very effective mood booster. – Staying at one’s desk during lunch can decrease happiness. Scientists at the University of Sussex evaluated happiness levels while various workers ate lunch [...]
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Summary: Social interaction and relaxation were the biggest parts of the perfect happy day for a number of people surveyed in a study. A research study conducted by Christian Kroll of Jacobs University in Germany and Sebastian Pokutta of Georgia Tech found that a group of people surveyed indicated in order to experience a maximum [...]
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Summary: Prosocial behavior – also known as the desire to help others – may be far more motivating than is currently understood by society at large. Adam Grant is the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School of Business. His field is organization psychology and his research sometimes has been on the provocative side. A [...]
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Summary: Binging on food or activities that we enjoy actually may make us less happy, says a research study. The obvious answer to why overworking tends to make us unhappy is the added stress, because it causes anxiety and physical tension in the body such as clenched and even knotted muscles. It also causes our [...]
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Summary: Social connectedness can be a predictor of health and productivity. – Recent research shows our health is linked to positive social connections. One of the last posts here was about the use of personal technology by employees, such as their own laptops and smart phones and how that utilization can make them more efficient [...]
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Summary: Studies have found reduced employee happiness and increased risk of heart disease due to bad bosses. – Employees that feel undervalued and unsupported are likely to be less happy and healthy, according to recent research. A recent study published in the Journal of Business and Psychology found that the degree employees perceive they are [...]
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Summary: Results of an employee survey showed personal technology increased workplace happiness and efficiency. – More and more workers (especially the younger ones) are using personal devices such as smart phones and laptops on the job. – Organizations that don’t recognize how using personal devices can help their employees might experience productivity losses. A research [...]
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Summary: Less than half of UK workers are happy with their jobs. - This number is about the same as last year. According to a survey conducted by Office Angels about 42% of workers in the UK are happy with their current jobs. (Last year a similar survey found 41% were.) Some 46% of workers [...]
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Summary: Research subjects that watched a short comedy clip performed better on math tests than ones that didn’t. – A cause and effect link between happiness and productivity might have been strengthened by the study. Researchers at the University of Warwick and IZA Bonn conducted a study using 565 test subjects. In their study paper [...]
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