Are you happy at work? Is it them or you? Find happiness at work

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We all face the dilemma of happiness at work. It is one the most important factors that influence the quality of work input by an individual. One falls in either of the two categories, first one is in profession one always wanted to be in or one is in the profession that one didn't expect to be in. In the first case, chances are one would find happiness in most cases. However, the second case is the one most of us belong to. Most of the people in the world are in the profession that didn't want/plan/expect to be in. Nevertheless we should always try to keep ourselves in happiness.





Now in either case, the happiness at work of an individual is mostly always dependent on the individual and rarely on the external factors. Most of us end up continuing working in our non-chosen field because of life pressures/money requirement/ children or other reasons. This leads to more frequent boredom, concentration loss and loss of happiness. We can prevent this by treating ourselves with little goodies every now and then like going on a vacation to maintain our happiness. This way we ensure our happiness is on the priority list and we never fail to be happy at work.



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So many times people tend to complain that the main reason of their unhappiness at work is the boss. It is highly imperative to have an understanding boss who can support in times of need and maintain your levels of happiness. In fact a third of people who leave their jobs is because attitude of their boss and loosing happiness because of him/her. Sometimes it can be challenge to gel with a person but with a careful approach it can be done easily. It is better to be straight forward with your boss regarding your concerns and ensuring your happiness. If he/she doesn't address them repeatedly, it’s better to talk to HR and senior management at once to resolve it so as not to loose your happiness at work. Even HR people would recognize the fact happiness at work is very important and would help one to attain happiness.





Politics at work can be very interruptive to the entire environment and overall bonding levels between staff members and their happiness. Most of unproductive workers are likely to be more politics oriented and find their happiness in it. There are two ways to handle politics in office. The best way is to stay out of politics. Just do your work and don’t get involved in anyone’s business and any nonsense that goes around to keep your happiness intact. Have good relations with anyone and everyone to spread happiness around you. Be sweet to people and they will be good to you to increase happiness score. The second and more daring way is to create your own politics and be on top of anyone else. You create the gossips, news and activities and thus be in control of your happiness. This is often done by those who want to more up the ladder. This way you can be the star and at the same time have people follow you and respect you and increase happiness. This creates space and people look up to you to solve their problems and help to increase their happiness. Politics done in a good way is good for your organization as well. Either way you will be happy as you will be in control of yourself and the situations and have happiness at work.

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People who are not able to perform the job at optimum levels also face the problem of lack of happiness at work. The way out of this is to seek others opinion on how you can be better. It’s also beneficial to check the best practices and seek your superiors help. This would enable their happiness as well as yours. Sometimes a simple demonstration by another person is of great help. I have always followed my method. Whenever I used to come back home, I would spend 5 minutes of time with myself thinking about things that I could improve on the next day and what to do to improve them. These 5 minutes always helped me to stay ahead of the game and become top performer and get higher levels of happiness.





Sometimes some people are also drama kings or drama queens. It is highly suggested not to indulge in such tendencies and stick to the work so as not to fuck the happiness of others. Drama at work place is not appreciated and is a total waste of time. It also helps one to make enemies or rivals at work and reduce happiness levels of everyone around. This is a total waste of time and effort not only for the one who does it but also for the ones around decreasing their overall happiness. There is a total feeling of disgust which begins to affect the general moral and happiness. Usually in such cases the person responsible for it ends up earning the wrath of the management or the people around leading to loss of employment.





There are some workplaces which involve multi-tasking and co-operation and coordination between different departments. People often find it tough in the beginning to adjust in such job roles, which leads to less happiness at work and dissatisfaction. One should give himself/herself more time to adjust in the environment and also try to build better relationships with others. Time also smoothens out things and makes it easier to adjust the pulls and pushes thus leading to better happiness levels.





In this article I have highlighted several reasons and situations which can be detrimental to an employee’s happiness at work and the steps one can take to correct them. However we live in the world and almost everything is imperfect and it is our own approach to happiness which makes things perfect or not. Our happiness is much more dependent on us and not on others. It is to do with the fact how we approach the issues, whether we take them with cool head or we make a big issue of a trivial matter. One has to adjust to the existing environment and culture of the workplace as it cannot adjust to us. So it’s better we become the kings of our happiness.

A lot of times much of the loss of happiness is because of delayed rewards and recognition. Everybody who goes to work needs a little appreciation for the efforts they put in to maintain their happiness levels. If it so happens that the recognition is being delayed time and again then the loss of happiness creeps in. Sometimes the rewards are the form of cash and kind. What the management may not realize is that it may be very essential for the person in the particular month to have some extra money to keep up his happiness or the rewards are an excellent happiness booster for him. What one can do is to inform the responsible and wait for the action. We should also realize that so many times a lot of things are not in our hands and we should keep calm and hope for the best to have sustained levels of happiness. Upon repeated attempts, it’s best advisable to move to a employment which is more employee centric so one can have happiness at work.