National Survey Finds That Money Can't Buy Workplace Happiness

SALT LAKE CITY, UT--(Marketwired - Aug 10, 2016) - EventBoard, a developer of cloud-based meeting tools and analytics that help maximize workplace productivity, today released results from its inaugural Employee Happiness survey, identifying trends related to happiness within the workplace and demonstrating the importance of new technology in helping today's workers be more content and effective. The report reveals that higher salaries do not necessarily equate to contentment, that mismanaged meetings are a key contributor to workplace conflict and it's important to employees that they can implement their choice of technologies.

Employees who are happier are proven to be significantly more productive than unhappy workers, according to recent data. This means that in order to encourage productivity, companies and managers are tasked with not only keeping employees happy, but finding new ways to help employees work smarter, not harder. Oftentimes this calls for administering technologies that help to ensure that employees can connect and collaborate in a very effective manner. As we evolve the way we work, EventBoard data reveals important factors that play into workplace happiness:

• Money Can't Buy Happiness: Over forty percent of survey respondents making $75k+/year are 'not happy' in their current workplace; while fifty-eight percent of respondents making below $75k+ year are "happy or very happy" in the workplace.
• Real Tech Talk: Over half of employees have to supplement workplace technologies with their own; and almost forty percent of respondents noted that they would be motivated to work harder by innovative tech tools.
• Role Call: From VPs to interns, meetings that run long are the number one source of workplace conflict.
  
  

Happiness is Key

Although the majority of workers are generally happy with their jobs, a nearly 40 percent of employees still struggle to find happiness in the workplace. A notable size of workers earning a salary of $75,000 are generally unhappy at work, while millennials, a generation known for seeking out fulfilling careers, are happier than any other age group. Almost half of employees noted that conflict resolution is important to overall workplace happiness.