Happiness

The claim that happy and healthy people are more productive has been substantiated by extensive amounts of research across economics, psychology, public health, and organizational studies for decades. A person’s health encompasses physical fitness, mental well-being, sleep quality, and lifestyle factors like exercise and nutrition. Human health influence’s cognitive function, focus, energy levels, and motivation, and ultimately enables individuals to "do the right things" through their personal life and work efforts. Opportunity for a person to engage in meaningful work can be linked to how a person’s work creates value. An expansive review of research, longitudinal studies and large-scale surveys that highlight how personal health and happiness influence’s ability to make measurable productivity gains is vast. Businesses that focus on producing greater quality of life for their workforce are more successful.

To understand the impact that personal happiness, health and well-being has on business value creation, consider the following:

Key Benefits:

• • Employees who engage in regular physical activity experience significant productivity boosts.
• • Physical health improvements consistently lower time lost to illness or impaired performance.
• • Reduced absenteeism and workforce presenteeism is linked to a workers focus and efficiency.
• • Health risk due to obesity and being overweight is linked to a loss in worker productivity.
• • A workforce that is absent or impaired has a direct impact on the quality of a person’s work.
• • Mental health fosters the love for work and focus needed for high-value output.
• • Lowering workplace stress leads to higher engagement and better quality of work.
• • Higher well-being is linked to superior performance and lower workforce burnout.
• • Happiness and positive emotions are linked to better productivity and greater output.
• • Personal happiness is also linked to better quality of work and better morale.

Overall, there are huge implications for business when personal productivity and enhanced value creation span through a workforce. Being focused on doing the right things each day depends on many factors. Business must continually contend with change, implications of evolving technologies, societal factors and personal situations that can affect any person. Reducing business risks by ensuring workers are happy, focused and recognized for their work can be game changing for most organizations.

Focus on Doing the Right Things Everyday to Realize the Achievements You Deserve!