Being happy and feeling productive means self-realization, reaching the goals of a human being. It is a "state of great spiritual and physical satisfaction." This state does not depend on what ...

So, researchers kept going. In 2019, researchers got more granular with the thesis, suggesting that instead of happy-productive and unhappy-unproductive, there are four patterns a worker could ...

A happy team is likelier to be more energized, ... A study at a British telecommunications firm run by Oxford University's Saïd Business School found that happy workers were 13% more productive.

The happy-productive worker thesis is basically a theory that happier workers are better workers—and it’s been studied for decades. Like any theory or hypothesis, however, ...

Happy employees are 12% more productive than unhappy ones. Close relationships are the key to happiness and health. And when workers are happy, their employers share in the benefits.

Conventional wisdom holds that if only we pay workers enough, they’ll be productive. There may be more to it, though. Recent research hints there’s a link between employees’ happiness and ...

With the unemployment rate running at less than 4%, companies are having to dig deep, and be as creative as possible, to keep employees happy and productive – or they run the risk of having to ...