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Re:Employee happiness and business success are linked by paulintrognon on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @10:55PM (#20571353)
That's the point: those questions influence both employe happiness and company success. But employee happiness does not _directly_ influence company success.
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Re:Employee happiness and business success are linked by etork on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @03:07AM (#20572255)
But OP claimed that the two aren't even correlated.

Correlation just means that when goes up, the other tends go up (or down, as the case may be). It doesn't make any claim on whether there's a direct influence or not. Hence the common refrain: correlation is not causation.

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Re:Employee happiness and business success are linked by username90 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:40AM (#20573484)
I read it as "happiness is not correlated to success when you control for these questions".
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Re:Employee happiness and business success are linked by frobozz on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:51AM (#20574836)
Which I read as "happiness is not correlated to success when you control for most of the factors that influence happiness in the workplace"
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Re:Employee happiness and business success are linked by vnorilo on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @06:29AM (#20573082)
I thought the claim was that happiness and company performance were not correlated, but good results on these questions and performance were.
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Re:Employee happiness and business success are linked by frobozz on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:48AM (#20572655)
I'd be surprised if any single factor directly and unambiguously influences success.

You could hire a bunch of jolly simpletons, have the happiest company in the world, and go bust before the year is out.

You could make it perfectly clear what is expected of everyone, give them all the kit they need, implement all their valuable suggestions then depress them by paying them minimum wage and discouraging fraternisation and have a similar outcome.

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