Measuring happiness at
work.
Our mission at Lykki
is to "Inspire happier workplaces". And one of the ways we do that is
by researching how other companies engage their employees and then share these
ideas with our customers and the world. Many times we take the ideas we find
and try them for ourselves.
One such idea comes
from a company that found a simple way to measure happiness in their workplace.
What they did was place three buckets near the time clock where their employees
would scan out each day.
One bucket had the
same number of tennis balls in the bucket as there were employees. The
second bucket was empty and had a sign that said "Had a good day"
The third bucket was
empty and had a sign that said "Didn't have a good day"
left at the end of the
day. Second was how many ball in the good day bucket and finally how many balls
in the not such a good day bucket.
These three data sets were
tracked and almost immediately they saw that Wednesdays were a low point with
staff. So the company mixed up the Friday happy hour and moved it to Wednesday.
Problem solved.
We are starting the Happy
Ball project at Lykki - so we'll see how it works.
I'm always on the lookout
for interesting ideas like this so please share if you have one.
Cheers
Calvin
