Employee happiness and business success are linked

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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