Happy People Are More Productive Employees
April 17, 2014 1 Comment
I recently read an interesting article in Fast Company called Happy Workers Are More Productive: Science Proves It which discusses a UK study of 713 people. The findings make sense and match what we’ve seen, so I decided to do an analysis with our datasets.
Happiness is an element of our Temkin Well-Being Index, so we have a lot of data on it. I dug into our Q3 2013 Temkin Group Consumer Benchmark Study to examine the connection between happiness and productivity for more than 5,000 U.S. consumers. To identify “happy people” we selected the full-time employees who said that they are “always” or “almost” always happy. Our analysis compares those people to other full-time employees who report that they are less frequently happy. As you can see in the chart below:
- Happy people go out of their way more for their employers
- Happy employees try harder
- Happy people take less sick time
The bottom line: Hire happy people and keep them happy!
I totally agree with you. Happy people+ Happy Employees= Happy Customers