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It is absurd to reduce "happiness" to a single, one-dimensional value, as the sliders illustrate. Edit: what would you do with this information as a manager, a
by buttercraft 4y ago
It is absurd to reduce "happiness" to a single, one-dimensional value, as the sliders illustrate.
Edit: what would you do with this information as a manager, anyway? At best, you know your employees are unhappy but not why. So you still have to sit down and talk with them. Which you should have been doing in the first place instead of wasting everyone's time with this happiness index crap.
- throw10920 4y agoI feel perfectly comfortable reducing my workplace happiness to a single value. I don't think I could even expand it to more than two axes if I tried.
- DonHopkins 4y agoI wouldn't feel perfectly comfortable about working in a one-dimensional workplace. The free hot cocoa and tea was very nice.
- shanusmagnus 4y agoThe same as with any data you'd collect about anything -- it's part of a larger ecosystem, and no reasonable person expects one number to be the ultimate fount of all wisdom. I can recall situations where some of my reports were unhappy, which I knew about, but where the _magnitude_ of their unhappiness didn't come across, because for whatever reason, that's a thing people will often hide in conversation, at least for a while. Similarly, anybody who sees patients will admit to getting very different readings from different types of solicitations about their well-being. They become more useful in aggregate, and with experience. Also, nothing prevents you from including a free text box to add context to a "happiness" rating.