This document discusses happiness at work and how to achieve it. It is authored by Alexander Kjerulf, Chief Happiness Officer. The key points are: 1. Happiness at work leads to greater productivity, creativity, health and profits for companies. Happy employees are better for business outcomes. 2. There are tools and strategies for improving happiness at work, such as focusing on results and relationships, celebrating successes, taking breaks, and hiring people who are already happy. 3. Creating a happy workplace is good for employees, customers, and investors. The future belongs to organizations that prioritize happiness.

1. Happiness
at workAlexander Kjerulf
Chief Happiness Officer

2. Arbejdsglæde
Workhappiness
(ah-bites-gleh-the)‫‏‬

4. Happiness at work is...
A feeling of happiness you
get at work!

5. Karoshi =
Death from
overwork

6. What is happiness at work?
Why happiness→ profits.
How to be happy at work.
(With tools!)‫‏‬

7. Alexander Kjerulf
Chief Happiness Officer.
M.Sc. in computer science,
from the University of
Southern Denmark, 1994.
Co-founder of Enterprise
Systems (a super-happy IT-
company), 1997.
Founder of Woohoo inc.,
2003.
Snowboarder, wakeboarder,
avid reader, film fan,
Crossfit fanatic.

11. Bahamas
Croatia
Curaçao
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
England
Estonia
France
Germany
Greenland
Guatemala
Holland
India
Ireland
Kuwait
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
USA

12. Anyone can be
happy at work

14. What makes you
happy at work?

15. Tell me about one of
your very best
experiences at work.
One that made you
very happy!

16. 1: Results

17. 2: Relationships

18. 1: Results
2: Relationships

19. Where is
your focus?

20. Photo: © Thomas Lee

21. Photo: © Thomas Lee

24. Happiness at work
is really, really
good for you
Time
Life
Health

25. Articles:
The relationship between job satisfaction and health: a
meta-analysis
E B Faragher, M Cass and C L Cooper
Occup. Environ. Med. 2005;62;105-112
doi:10.1136/oem.2002.006734
A meta-analysis of the relationships between individual job
satisfaction and individual performance
M M Petty, Gail W McGee, Jerry W Cavender
Academy of Management Review, 1984, Vol. 9, No. 4
A meta-analytic examination of the relationship between
job satisfaction and subjective well-being
Nathan A. Bowling, Kevin J. Eschleman, Qiang Wang
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Volume 83, Issue 4, pages 915–934, December 2010

26. Happy people are better:
More productive
More creative
More helpful
Better at service
More focused on quality
Better team-players
More open
More likable
Show more empathy
Sell more
More optimistic
More motivated
More engaged
More energetic
Learn faster
Better leaders

29. 1: Employees
2: Customers
3: Investors

30. Happy workplaces
make more money!

31. Article:
Well-being in the workplace and its relationship to
business outcomes
James K Harter, Frank L Schmidt, Corey L M Keyes
Flourishing: The positive person and the good life,
chapter 9, pp. 205-244
Books:
The happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor
Crown Business, 2010
ISBN: 978-0307591548
The Service Profit Chain
James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser Jnr, Leonard A.
Schlesinger
Simon & Schuster, 1997
ISBN: 978-0684832562

32. Happiness
at work

33. Do or do not.
There is no try.

36. Hire people
who are already
happy

37. Stop making
people unhappy

38. Take 5

39. Celebrate
success

41. ”Tell me about
something really
cool you've done at
work recently”

42. How to make yourself and
others happy!
Happiness at work matters.
Results and relationships

43. Book: Happy Hour is 9 to 5
More information
Newsletter
Web: Woohooinc.com
Twitter: @alexkjerulf
Blog: www.positivesharing.com

45. The future
belongs to
the happy!