International Day of Happiness: Why Happiness is Important

This International Day of Happiness we have brought you the ultimate Happiness panel! According to Gitnux ‘Companies with happy employees outperform their competition by 20% and are 12% more productive.’ And we here at THI couldn’t agree more. The data points linking happiness and productivity are undeniable. So we wanted to break that down for you and help your organisation understand why employee happiness is so valuable.

Kashi Chellen sits down with Matt Phelan (Co-Founder, The Happiness Index), Jemma MacLean (Director, Insight HRC) and Dr Timothy Lomas (Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) to discuss:

• What is happiness?

• What’s the current state of happiness globally and in the UK?

• Why is happiness relevant to you as an individual?

• Should you always be happy?

• Why is happiness important to organisations?

• What drives happiness?