Harsh truth | Why you shouldn't try to be happy at work

Why you shouldn't try to be happy at work
Why you shouldn't try to be happy at work

Being happy at work can often be a challenging concept; on the one hand, you don’t want to accept that you’re doomed to spend the majority of your waking hours miserable, yet on the other you’re stuck constantly trying to fane wellness and inputting far too much energy into ‘faking it ‘till you make it’.

So, when trying to ensure your own happiness in the office, what’s the answer? Well, it might not be the one that you’re looking for. Essentially, statistics have proven that there is little that an employee can do to ensure their own happiness; simply too many factors are at play to make significant enough changes in a job that doesn’t bring you satisfaction.

Gallup statistics show that 85% of employees aren’t engaged at work. It’s a massive issue in most workplaces, and it’s one that as of now, we obviously don’t have the answer to. After all, very few people feel truly fulfilled by cleaning jobs, or customer service jobs and the people that do are keeping their formula for happiness tight-lipped.

And you don’t have to be employed in a menial position to feel a lack of satisfaction in your work. According to research conducted by Career Bliss, which analysed the behaviours of over 24,000 workers in more than 250 job roles, financial analysts are the lest fulfilled workers, closely followed by project coordinators, teachers, legal assistants and sales associates.

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