Re:Why Team Happiness Can Be the Wrong Thing to Aim for [video]
by askafriend on Friday June 17, 2016 @10:14PM
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It really is that simple. Empathy is key.
But this type of philosophy has to come from the top, and if a founder or management team is even a little psychopathic, then I feel like there's really not much you can do (but maybe I'm wrong here, and people with more experience can chime in)
Obviously optimizing for "happiness" in some sort of naive, single-minded sort of way is not the way to go about things. If you have the type of employees that you have to infantilize and throw dumb perks, entitlements, and power to in order to make them happy, you need to reconsider a few things. But on the flip side, if the only inputs to your model of employee wellbeing are "bad news" and "ignorance/delusion", you're probably running an abusive workplace.
This kind of stuff shouldn't be rocket science.