Comments on: What Makes you Happy at work?

By: kometbomb

kometbomb — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:31:21 +0000

Google employees can work on their own projects ONLY if the project is somehow of interest to Google. A good example is GMail which originally was an employee’s hobby project and now famously is the state of the art webmail service.

I guess in business you need such guidelines so all that extra motivation turns into profit, not a collection of cool, useless junk (not forgetting some of that completely useless junk is a billion dollar business right now…).

By: Rona

Rona — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:30:05 +0000

“Google gives their employees freedom to be creative, letting them devote 20 per cent of their working hours to projects of their own choosing.”

I am sending in my application to Google today.

Cheers

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:27:00 +0000

So my advice to managers and employees is this: Make happiness at work your top priority. It will make work more fun, it will make you happier in life, and it will make you more successful.

By: robdogg

robdogg — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:09:45 +0000

easier said then done, especially when you are in a competitive industry where skill is highly coveted.