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At The Happiness Camp Foundation in Portugal, meeting rooms carried labels such as Playful Pitstop and Dopamine Hub. The two-day conference on \u201cworkplace happiness\u201d in September could easily be dismissed as corporate whimsy but the list of international companies in attendance \u2013 Ikea, Lidl, Adidas, among others \u2013 shows more businesses are taking the theme seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know happy employees are more productive, more creative and more motivated, and yet study after study shows happiness levels at work are often very low,\u201d says Ant\u00f3nio Pinto, the 26-year-old founder of the conference.<\/p>\n

Some companies are creating a role to fix the problem: the chief happiness officer.<\/p>\n

The CHO role, initially a mash-up of wellbeing manager, entertainment organiser and unofficial corporate counsellor, began life in a waggish guise. Google\u2019s first candidate in the job in the early 2010s also liked to be known as \u201cJolly Good Fellow\u201d.<\/p>\n

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But research on positive psychology and employee performance shows a harder-nosed rationale behind boosting corporate cheer.<\/p>\n

Workplace engagement is a favoured indicator. On the spectrum of happiness, almost eight in 10 (77 per cent) employees sit somewhere between disaffected and actively resentful, according to Gallup\u2019s latest global study. The cost in lost productivity is estimated to be $8.8 trillion (\u20ac8.05 trillion).<\/p>\n

So, if the problem facing CHOs is obvious enough, what are their approaches to solving it?<\/p>\n

Helen Lawrence, co-founder of UK-based advisory firm Happy Consultancy Group, says it is important to set some conceptual parameters.<\/p>\n

\u201cHappiness is such a subjective topic, with so many different definitions,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s perhaps to be expected for such a broad theme, but it also feeds a degree of cynicism.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is clear on what happiness is not: \u201cdrinking beer on a Friday\u201d or \u201cplaying ping pong\u201d. These may be important \u2013 providing moments of joy at work \u2013 but their impact, like their duration, is short-lived.<\/p>\n

Instead Lawrence points to deeper factors that drive psychological contentment, such as purpose, recognition, fulfilment and belonging. Notably, few if any relate directly to money, despite pay rises often being companies\u2019 go-to option for pleasing employees.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Friday Pulse, a management tool that measures wellbeing, cites five core pillars: connection, challenge, fairness, empowerment and inspiration.<\/p>\n

Being permanently nice is not necessarily a prerogative of the effective CHO, adds Lawrence. People do not need empty platitudes but the tools to remain positive and optimistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn passive working cultures where nobody wants to upset anybody, not only does nothing get done but problems don\u2019t get dealt with,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Companies are advised to ditch generic approaches to boosting happiness, although perks such as flexible working or subsidised gym membership are usually well received. What makes us content at work differs from team to team and individual to individual.<\/p>\n

When Tobias Haug started as chief happiness officer in the European operations of software company SAP in 2018, he found a sales-focused environment characterised by high adrenaline and a push for targets. Free coffees and lunchtime yoga would, he quickly realised, not cut it.<\/p>\n

Instead he instigated a series of \u201cmicro-interventions\u201d to empower teams and improve morale, such as introductory courses to help new recruits put faces to names, and asking teams to write the job profile for their new boss when the position became vacant.<\/p>\n

\u201cSAP has 191 locations around the world. If this is all run by a central team that wants to do everything the same, then it quickly becomes generic and you lose these local sensitivities,\u201d says Haug.<\/p>\n

Large organisations cannot expect to have a dedicated CHO in every location, however. Nuno Monteiro, chief human resources officer for Mimacom, a Swiss software and consulting firm, suggests using local managers who know how their teams work. The CHO job then becomes more one of co-ordination, training and \u201cspreading the message\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

Arguably, a substantial part of a CHO\u2019s role is being picked up by traditional HR departments. Advocates say a designated function can pull these activities together and give them a specific management focus. \u201cThe CHO needs to be putting the happiness topic on the agenda of management. So, when they ask questions like, \u2018What do our employees actually want?\u2019, the CHO is there to answer,\u201d says Monteiro.<\/p>\n

But as most CHOs will attest, having \u201chappiness\u201d in your job title can be a hurdle to being taken seriously. Haug ditched the moniker after a month and now calls himself \u201chead of humanising business\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CHO title works great at cocktail parties … But the term has so many emotional connotations that most people don\u2019t link it to delivering business value,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

In Mimacom\u2019s case, its first and only CHO, hired in 2022, lasted just a year before the company pulled the plug. In part, the firm was consolidating, says Monteiro. But, while management \u201cliked the idea\u201d, it did not put it on the \u201cday-to-day agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n

Part of the problem is that happiness is a slippery metric to measure. It is highly subjective, and linking management interventions to individual or team results is fiendishly hard.<\/p>\n

Friday Pulse proposes a list of 15 questions that result in an overall happiness score out of 100. They range from the general \u201cHow happy were you at work this week?\u201d, to the more nuanced: \u201cDo you feel free to be yourself?\u201d or \u201cDo you feel the work you do is worthwhile?\u201d<\/p>\n

Enthusiasts such as Madalena Carey, who set up the Happiness Business School, an accredited training provider, in 2018, recognise corporate happiness has a way to go before it receives the management attention they think it deserves. But Carey observes a shift that gives her hope it will become more of a priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur grandparents worked tirelessly to guarantee survival. Our parents worked tirelessly to maintain their living standards,\u201d she reasons. \u201cToday\u2019s generations have more opportunities, so they\u2019re looking for things like quality of life, purpose and meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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