Be Happy. Get Productive.
iB Perspective:
We love this article in Fast Company because it’s proof that being happy actually makes you work harder. Yup. So follow your dreams. Do what gets you excited. And be generous to those around you. You might just be surprised at what happens.
“Companies in all sectors have been increasingly investing in the happiness of employees, with firms like Etsy going so far as to create a Gross Happiness Index, and Google gathering metrics to optimize the length of its free lunch lines (too long, and people are annoyed; too short, they don’t get to chit-chat).
But any investor should be able to measure its return, and now a group of U.K. researchers say they’ve provided the first scientifically-controlled evidence of the link between human happiness and productivity: Happier people are about 12% more productive, the study found.