Hi Paula. Given my area of interest you know I am going to focus on "happiness at work."

I'm not surprised 92% of workers rate it as important. I see that only 4% say they are very unhappy, but we aren't shown how many are really happy -- just that it is important to a high percentage.

Reading, "Salary is seen as the answer to the improved happiness," perplexes me. I'm guessing that is based on survey results. At the same time, salary is often viewed as a hygiene factor. In my anecdotal experience, even if someone would tell me money would make them happy, when we dig into it, it isn't the top priority after all, of course unless they were vastly underpaid. See this link to dig deeper into hygiene factors. https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/herzberg-motivators-hygiene-factors.htm

Perhaps I am out of touch. My experience is that many employees who say money would make them happy either don't trust management with their real answer or don't know how to articulate their real answer. Or maybe people are saying salary will make them happy because they have resigned themselves to this being the best they can hope for.

VERY interesting. Thank you for sharing.