Better life through happiness at work
Not only do stress destroy lifes and work places. It brakes down our society. 430.000 Danish persons experience symptons of stress daily. Collectively, stress costs society DKK 27 billion yearly
430.000
Danes experience serious symptons of stress daily
30.000
Danes are hospitalized every year due to stress
27
%Danes are yearly hospitalized due to stress
Challenge
Just before everything was about corona, WHO declared stress and mental dissatisfaction as the largest health pandemic of the 21st century. In Denmark 430.000 persons are in the yellow zone and experiences serious symptoms on stress every day. We have 1.5 million sick days yearly due to stress, and 35.000 are already on sick leave. All of this in a time where we are lacking general workforce.
Alone 35.000 persons on sick leave cost society, companies and pensions more than DKK 27 billion yearly. And here, the many billions of lost profit, when employees are not thriving, are not calculated.
The good news is that it is both a human and financially good business to invest in happiness at work: Companies with the happiest employees have appr. DKK 26.000 larger profit per employee yearly than the least happy workplaces.
Task
Corona has affected everybody’s work life, and we’ve all been reflecting upon how we work. This means, that we have a unique window of opportunity to change habits and act - now!
The Work Happiness Alliance encourages all leaders and workplaces, private as well as public, to try out new ways of working and be searching and curious about how we bring the best from the new and old era of work-life into a better and more sustainable work life. We also encourage politicians to establish a fund for better well-being to enhance general effort on happy work life.
Results
The Work Happiness Alliance is an ongoing alliance established in 2020. Our concepts are being developed and shaped in our Work Happiness Arenas where organizations find solutions for a happy work-life by facing challenges within their own organization.
The Work Happiness Alliance is an ongoing alliance established in 2020. Our concepts are being developed and shaped in our Work Happiness Arenas where organizations find solutions for a happy work-life by facing challenges within their own organization.
In addition, the alliance has a permanent tent at the People's Meeting and an annual summit is held where action concepts and the pioneers who perform them are celebrated.
