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   Why staff wellbeing at work is so much more than free lunches and
   from developing mobile search tools to spreading happiness across the
   organisation. Happiness became his job.
   chief happiness officer. She was one of the first to perform the role.
   But once Google did it, employee happiness became a key metric and
   happiness officers listed on jobs website LinkedIn. But a closer look
   organisations investing heavily in fostering a happiness culture think
   keep the happiness levels high.
   But the answer to employee happiness is not in the form of bean bags
   most popular places to work – not the physical surroundings.
     * Why half the country's workforce wants a different job
   There is a real difference between happiness gimmicks and working in a
   reward rather than fault-finding, and that enables them to work
   flexibly and provides them with work-life balance. Research shows that
   these are the real keys to happiness.
   one member who worked remotely, either from home or wherever they
   happened to want to work. Companies surveyed said this was a logistical
   allowing staff to work remotely may contribute more to their happiness
   people may be happy at work, these three things are needed: they must
   Research shows that employee happiness is also determined by their
   workplace well-being consultancy that we set up, we found that certain
   personality types experienced more “good days at work” than other
   the highest number of good days at work.
   all three had 79 per cent of “good days at work”, whereas those who had
   And, even if you do recruit with happiness traits in mind, being
   content at work will, to a larger extent, depend on the workplace
     * Is there bullying in your workplace? Here's why
   In our recent book Wellbeing: Productivity and Happiness at Work, case
   Partnership, Network Rail and the UK Civil Service – shows how this
   Happiness and contentment at work is not about sushi for lunch and
   massages at your desk; it is about how bosses treat those that work for
   Professor of Work & Organizational Psychology, University of Manchester
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