Employee happiness and business success are linked

Post by H8crilA » Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 10:57 AM UTC

chronic84920 wrote: post #77

H8crilA wrote: post #58

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You can start with true working hours per week. Simple honest rules - checking email at home counts, being paged counts double (because I can happen anytime, so you need to be alert), eating lunch does not. Transit time counts. Divide by 5 - that's your average daily load due to work. You get more than 9 - that's too much, I hope your compensation is superb (i.e. well above average).

> You get more than 9 - that's too much, I hope your compensation is superb (i.e. well above average). At FAANG, the number is most definitely less than 9. Combine this with the freakishly high compensation, and this looks like the best deal one could predicably get on Earth.

Post by wheno » Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 11:13 AM UTC

pmiller2 wrote: post #120

erikpukinskis wrote: post #87

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This is true even within tech companies, but for hourly workers. Hourly folks are treated like trash. I’m talking people who live in the bay, and work side by side with other professionals in SF. In a position like that you almost have to take a “durrr, I dunno!” attitude to everything, because if you try to talk to salaried people about what you need to do your job, you are looked at like a dog who just started reci…

None of that is true at my company, in my experience. It is a large company, so I might not have the full picture, but my little corner of it is not like that at all.

Post by username90 » Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 11:29 AM UTC

tdsamardzhiev wrote: post #125

achenatx wrote: post #94

I use a book called "first break all the rules" It is also based on gallup data. They determined that employee happiness was not correlated to company success. They did find that the following questions in order were highly correlated to company success. 1. Do I know what is expected of me at work? 2. Do I have the materials and equipment I need to do my work right? 3. At work, do I have the opportunity to do what I…

What do you mean when you say employee happiness? Because this list is pretty much what I'd reckon constitutes employee happiness.

Post by username90 » Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 11:40 AM UTC

etork wrote: post #140

paulintrognon wrote: post #100

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That's the point: those questions influence both employe happiness and company success. But employee happiness does not _directly_ influence company success.

But OP claimed that the two aren't even correlated . Correlation just means that when goes up, the other tends go up (or down, as the case may be). It doesn't make any claim on whether there's a direct influence or not. Hence the common refrain: correlation is not causation.

Post by tdsamardzhiev » Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 12:13 PM UTC

RomanBob wrote: post #159

tdsamardzhiev wrote: post #125

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What do you mean when you say employee happiness? Because this list is pretty much what I'd reckon constitutes employee happiness.

For you. Some people just want to sit for 8 hours, go home, and watch football.