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   factors increase your chances of being a happy worker? For some,
   job and I’m working fewer hours.”
   “What makes me happy at work now is variation,” she says. “And I can
   have longer periods of work and breaks in between when I want to.”
   2000, to 4.7 million workers in early 2016. In 2015, a survey by the
   primarily indicative of a rise in precarious, insecure work”.
   Happiness consultant Samantha Clarke believes the rise can partly be
   happiness at work is essential – [the work] must be purposeful, the
   Samantha Clarke, happiness consultant
   Happiness consultant Samantha Clarke says younger workers seek
   purposeful work.
   Trying to improve happiness at work has become big business in its own
   better understanding of what we want from work, and corporations are
   work, including the place and time you do it, and how you work towards
   unlikely to feel stressed and unhappy at work. Elevating that to a
   state of happiness depends on there being a higher purpose to the task
   people are very satisfied with working for themselves, citing a better
   work-life balance, increased earning potential and control over work as
   (pdf) found just 45% of employees felt satisfied at work.
   But entrepreneurs who set up their own businesses to achieve happiness
   Work-life balance is also important, he adds. It’s something he’s
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