Which EU workers are the happiest?

London workers have been trumped by their Dublin counterparts on the happiness scale, a new study reveals.

Recruitment website Indeed has released its Job Happiness Index, which shows in a city-by-city analysis that Dublin ranked the highest in Europe for employee happiness, ahead of London, Stockholm and Rome, which finished second, third and fourth respectively.

Indeed analysed five different elements of job satisfaction; work-life balance, quality of management, office culture, job security and advancement, and compensation and benefits in order to produce the data.

Overall the Irish came out on top in the European Union, ranked the happiest workers in Europe and fourth happiest in the world.