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Comment by tdsamardzhiev | Hacker News Reader

What do you mean when you say employee happiness? Because this list is pretty much what I'd reckon constitutes employee happiness.

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Happiness can come from many sources not on that list. For example, you could hire cheerleaders to entice your male team and make them happy, but that is unlikely to make them more productive. Sounds ridiculous, nobody would do that right? But a company in China did.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/business/china-women-tech...

For you.

Some people just want to sit for 8 hours, go home, and watch football.

So you let them sit for 8 hours, go home and watch football. What's next? They're happy forever and don't bother you? No, it's likely something from the list.

The list seems likely to be important, but I note that no form of material compensation is listed, and even people who don't particularly care for material wealth will probably put food-and-shelter above most or all of that list (with a possible exception for point 8, with people and companies that have a particularly strong Cause).

Study after study provides evidence that compensation is the most important motivator up to some individual range/level, at which point its leverage quickly tapers off. Food & shelter would definitely be below the cut-off but a 5% increase could be huge for some and meaningless for others. The challenge is everyone's curve is going to be different.

This list jives with the internal motivators that appear to drive really great work above the survival level: safety, opportunity and recognition.

I would imagine happiness of employers: "How happy are with your jobs on a scale from 1 to 10"

Could be 8 because of hours and location.

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