U.S. Employees Are the Happiest • Hacker News Board

Re: U.S. Employees Are the Happiest

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Post by danemorgan » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 1:57 PM UTC

ddxxdd wrote: post #6

There is no link to the original study. There are two links within the text, but neither of them link to the study. In fact, one of those two links is misleadingly presented as the link to the study, but is not actually the link to the study. Challenge question for stats and math nerds: if 93% of a sample of 1000 Americans claim they enjoy their job, and if 91% of a sample of ~650 Netherlanders claim that they love t…

There is no study. There is a poll run by a coworking space management company.

Re: U.S. Employees Are the Happiest

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 5:42 AM UTC

speedplane wrote: post #18

playeren wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a manager I do not accept that team members skip PTO. We're not paying for it to be nice, we expect ROI. Happy, healthy people are generally productive, highly cooperative and inventive.

> As a manager I do not accept that team members skip PTO. Sure, but as a manager, you should probably know that giving people engaging work, with meaningful impact, and significant personal growth opportunities is often a greater motivator than providing additional days off.

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Re: U.S. Employees Are the Happiest

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Post by ThrowAway14591 » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 5:47 AM UTC

kube-system wrote: post #11

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #3

What about our lack of vacation days and holidays?

Throughout all of the jobs I've ever had, I've always taken less time off at jobs I liked more. It was the jobs I hated where I always ran out of vacation time, even when they had good PTO packages. A lack of vacation can make a job shitty. But a shitty job with some vacation doesn't make it a pleasant job.

If work were all unicorns and rainbows, it wouldn’t be work. Employers are businesses so things that drive revenue/profit for them are the work that needs to get done. You can’t argue that figuring out ways to show people more ads is meaningful work, but it has to get done by somebody.

If someone had enough F.U. money saved up to FIRE, you can guarantee they won’t show up for their boss the next day. As it stands, nobody ever goes to work at their current job whenever they get a windfall; they always leave to follow their passions.