Considering Google came back on its brain teaser interview practice and several other practices, I have a hard time believing their decisions are largely empiri

Considering Google came back on its brain teaser interview practice and several other practices, I have a hard time believing their decisions are largely empirical as opposed to short-term rational. This is even worse for "happiness" since individual happiness extends all the way to communities and back into society. Not only that, happiness is very dependent on culture, upbringing, cost of living and more. However, even HR at small tech companies in Europe follow the basic idea of "if employees are happier, they will produce more output!". Assuming this isn't a pretty lie, we know people are generally happier not having to live paycheck to paycheck by force. We know people are generally happier not having to sit in traffic jams because of a 9-5, at the office mentality. Even modern hiring practices are based on distrust and making things more tedious for both sides of the equation, when there are solutions which would at least help the employer out. There's plenty of room for them to actually follow their own advice, and we have plenty of studies at least suggesting benefits of remote work, less hours, different work hours, etc.