Whether you are an entrepreneur managing a startup, or a corporate executive with thousands of employees, it’s hard to ignore the evidence of big value from happy employees. According to a classic study from Deloitte, happy employees have been shown to be up to 20 percent more effective in the workplace than unhappy employees, as well as far more loyal and productive.
The challenge is to find the best way to keep everyone on your team happy and productive. Salesforce, which was ranked by Fortune magazine as the world’s best place to work in 2018, keeps the focus on employee happiness through dedicated “mindfulness” rooms, 56 hours of paid volunteer work a year, to $5.5 million in bounties paid out last year for great new hire referrals.
