Friday 1 December 2017

Happiness at work

CentrePiece Autumn 2017

What roles do work, employment and joblessness play in shaping our happiness? Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward summarise global evidence from the World Happiness Report on which elements of people’s working lives drive their reported job satisfaction, engagement at work and overall well-being.

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This article summarises ‘Happiness at Work’ by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward, CEP Discussion Paper No. 1474 (http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1474.pdf) and published as a chapter in the World Happiness Report 2017 (http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/).

What is happiness anyway? I am not sure that I always recognise it when it happens but can look back and think “yes, I was happy then”.



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