How To Be Happy At Work

“The way we’re working isn’t working,” wrote Tony Schwartz and Christine Porath in a recent New York Times article entitled “Why You Hate Work.” The article goes on to tell the sadly familiar tale of today’s typical workplace—lack of engagement in what people do, massive impediments to doing their work well, little appreciation for what they have done, all leading to the suspicion what they do at work makes no difference anyway. “For most of us,” the authors conclude, “work is a depleting, dispiriting experience.”