Is a chief happiness officer really the best way to increase workplace
happiness?
   While the trend of chief happiness officers might not have spread like
   wildfire, companies are increasingly finding ways to make workplace
   happiness a priority
   [ ] Chief happiness officers, or CHOs, are important, the thinking
   goes, because happy workers do more and stay longer at a company.
   Happiness in the workplace has become such a hot button conversation
   The remit of a chief happiness officer (CHO) is simple: to ensure
   workers are kept happy.
   But for a trend supposedly sweeping the workplace, the list of people
   There’s Jenn Lim (Delivering Happiness, an offshoot of Zappos),
If you're happy and you know it ... become a chief happiness officer
   The premise of a CHO seems to be that happy workers do more and stay
   employees. The work of a chief happiness officer can range from a focus
   have a strong emphasis on employee happiness – or at least on
   discussing their emphasis on employee happiness – but the ranks of
   chief happiness officers themselves are thin.
   WooHoo, Kjerulf is its founder. WooHoo consults on workplace happiness
   work a happier place. And it’s not just for show. “There really is a
   frequency with which workers help their colleagues and improving how
   you do work better. And not just customer service, but also technical
   work,” Barsade says. She adds that a growing number of human resource
   interest in a positive work environment from his students. When asked
   and clients within the workplace first.
   Laurence Vanhee was chief happiness officer of Belgium’s social
   Vanhee says emphasizing employee happiness by allowing telecommuting
   and creating group workspaces, for example, made more sense to her than
   popular in the 80s and 90s that treated workers as commodities to be
     Assigning companywide happiness to a bureaucrat is antithetical to
     the concept of workplace happiness.
   Consideration of workers’ wellbeing may become increasingly important
   competitive work environments. Kjerulf says he believes the financial
   Kjerulf says he tried to bring more happiness to an Ikea store in
   things that create a better relationship in the workplace, that we
   she walks into work. “We literally catch emotions like viruses in
What if work was awesome?
   55-person software development company, a focus on happiness has meant
   the removal of hierarchy with employees working in pairs that rotate
   happiness officer mentality in the company, rather than a chief
   happiness officer person in the company,” he says.
   University’s business school, says assigning companywide happiness to a
   bureaucrat is antithetical to the concept of workplace happiness.
   with a chief happiness officer?”
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