“Measure happiness, not engagement”

I came across this very interesting concept while looking for professional solutions to support Well Being actions within a corporate climate.

“Measure happiness, not engagement” is brought by Friday.work, a London company specialized in happiness metrics for business.

What I like from Friday.work

Friday.com’s team “reckon improving work life on a large scale can change the world”.

It is about creating a working place where collaborators feel happy and therefore engaged!

Building modern, agile teams

When we feel happy we generate all kind of positive emotions.

3 of them are identified as particularly useful at work (source Friday.work):

• “Enthusiasm – fabulous for creativity: It enables the cognitive leap essential for innovation.”
• “Interest – brilliant for productivity: This energy keeps us committed through the short-term tasks that are mundane or challenging.”
• “Affection – essential for retention: People rarely leave teams when they really like one another.”

The business case

There is a website called “Happiness at Work Survey” (from the creators of Friday.work).

Here I found interesting figures that show how important it is to take care of happiness at work.

*You can use the Calculator to measure how much can you save by investing in happiness at work: https://goo.gl/5VkXfo

How to build happy teams?

Friday.work’s team was commissioned by the UK government to look at mental health and well-being. The goal: provide evidence-based actions to improve personal well-being.

This evidence was used to determine 5 key actions that contribute to building happy teams:

CONNECT

BE FAIR

EMPOWER

CHALLENGE

INSPIRE 

Ready to discover more about Friday.work?

Friday.work is led by well-known statistician Nic Marks.
For more information, visit Friday.work’s website.

BONUS

TED Talk by Nic Marks – Happiness is a serious business

Source TEDx Talks