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Every year there's some new survey saying something different is the most important factor to happiness at work. I thought the Google research which determined

Every year there's some new survey saying something different is the most important factor to happiness at work. I thought the Google research which determined that psychological safety was the most important factor was really interesting because it didn't rely on multiple-choice surveys. I'd almost rather just read like ten mini-essays from ten randomly chosen developers who try to explain what makes them happy at work in their own words. I mean, I have conversations like that with people at work and I've never heard anyone say "salary" is the most important. Usually it's feeling proud at having solved a hard problem, or being proud of having shipped a product used by real customers. And I don't see either of these things on this survey.

CRConrad 4y ago
> I mean, I have conversations like that with people at work and I've never heard anyone say "salary" is the most important. Usually it's feeling proud at having solved a hard problem, or being proud of having shipped a product used by real customers. And I don't see either of these things on this survey. I'd have thought that's pretty much exactly what "feeling productive" means? Compare to the inverse, largest cause of dissatisfaction being "not feeling productive" (or was it "feeling unproductive"?) and sucky environments. It's hard to be -- and therefore, to feel -- productive when you're struggling with a spaghetti-reinforced mudball. I'd say what you are talking about is exactly what this survey found.