Work Life Happy: Work From Home, #2

By Lee Baker

WORK LIFE HAPPY IS THE SELF-HELP BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR WORK LIFE, HOME LIFE AND, GODDAMMIT, THEIR WHOLE LIFE. FOR LIFE…

 

Are you equally happy at work as you are at home?

Being happy at work is the first step to success, both yours and that of your company. Don't believe me? When you are happy at work, you become engaged in it. You work with passion and commitment, with energy and creativity.

When you are engaged you will see an increase in productivity and in the quality of your work, and stronger relationships with your colleagues follow.

And positivity is infectious. Your co-workers might catch it too! And then where would you be?

Work Life Happy is a pocket-sized book packed with ways to boost workplace well-being, increase your performance at work and at home, and has the happy effect of boosting your company's bottom line too!

Whether you're working in the office or at home, Work Life Happy helps you quickly and easily identify the things that are holding you back, whether it's you – or your boss.

Work Life Happy provides strategy after easy-to-follow strategy to help you find work/life balance, purpose, fulfillment – and happiness – in your day, every day. Wherever you work.

Even during a pandemic!

 

Work Life Happy is for anyone who:

* Hates their job

* Seeks a better work/life balance

* Wants greater purpose in their job

* Wants a more fulfilling job that brings them every-day joy

 

Read it.

Then give a copy to your boss.

It might just change everything!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lee Baker
• Release date: Sep 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393351405

Book preview

Review

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Introduction

We are in the early days of a new era, and the workplace is changing.

In the Agrarian Era that marked our transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers 10,000 years ago, our economies were based on producing food through agriculture and rearing livestock. It was backbreaking work, and strength and stamina were the keys to survival. No-one bothered asking whether they were happy in their work, they just wanted enough food to feed themselves and their families, and enough money to buy a few essentials.

Then came the Industrial Revolution, which started in around 1760, and heralded the introduction of new manufacturing processes. This shifted the focus of goods manufacturing from small shops and homes in rural areas to large mechanised factories in big cities. Efficiency and craftsmanship were prized skills in the workplace, and employees increasingly started to ask themselves if they were truly satisfied with their jobs.

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Then, in around 1970 came the invention of the microprocessor chip that made computers possible. In the Information Era, machines controlled by computers began to replace the factory work of blue-collar workers and production became automated. As such, the focus of human-based work shifted from factories to offices and from machines to computers and the internet. Now employees needed knowledge and curiosity, and innovation and creativity were prized assets. Workers began to ask if they were truly engaged in their careers.

We are now at the beginning of what is known as The Fourth Industrial Revolution, where focus has shifted to the Purpose Economy and where employees are now seeking a higher sense of meaning in their work lives. In this new age of work, it is fulfillment that is the new standard for employee engagement. Today’s workers are now asking themselves – and their employers – whether their work gives them a sense of purpose and meaning.

They are also beginning to ask questions as to whether they are having to sacrifice their personal beliefs in pursuit of their employer’s goals that don’t necessarily match their own. An employee doesn’t care about profits, the bottom line or shareholder dividends, so why should they be inspired to work towards these goals?

The old way of motivating employees, which is still surprisingly popular today, is the ‘carrot and stick’ method, whereby employees are rewarded for doing good work (large paychecks and bonuses) and punished for sub-standard work (demotion and given meaningless tasks).

Does this still work in the purpose era?

Essentially, the carrot and stick method generates an imbalance between work life and personal life that ultimately makes people unhappy, and creates a work