'Laughter gap' | How many times a day do you laugh at work?

Laughter is alive and well in the workplace. Wahey! So, that’s good then.

And yet many employees are thinking twice before cracking a joke, particularly when senior leaders are in the room.

New research from Monster’s Workplace Laughter Report suggests that humor remains common across the US workforce but, at the same time, employees are becoming more deliberate about how they use it in a professional setting.

The survey of more than 1,000 US workers finds that 77% laugh at least three times during a typical workday (who counts?), with 39% laughing three to five times, 18% six to ten times, and 21% more than ten times. Those people also feature in various ‘how irritating are your co-workers?’ surveys.