A recent study indicates that happy workers are good for profits. The challenge in this study is that successful companies may result in happier employees. Or, is it the other way around, do happy employees lead to successful companies? The study looked at the annual list of best companies to work for. These lists are
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Happy Workers are Better Workers
Dwight Lieb, the owner of the well-known La Fogata restaurant, makes the point I was addressing in my post about CPS. Happy workers make better workers. He asks what are "happy" workers? Happy workers are those employees who derive some satisfaction from their job and feel empowered to realize professional goals at their jobs. See San…
Former Employee Defames Employer with Website
Many employees are falsely accused of transgression at work. There is very little any worker can do about a false accusation. Defamation is very difficult to prove in the workplace. I wrote about defamation under Texas law here. As I mentioned in that post, to overcome the qualified privilege in the workplace, one would…
Workplace Violence Takes 9 Lives
Another incident of workplace violence. This time in Connecticut. See news report. The shooter’s family say the shooter had been harassed due to his race, African-American. In any event, he was video taped stealing some product. The morning of the shooting, he was going to a disciplinary hearing. He had worked for the beer…