Is employee happiness really a viable metric for success? with Pieter Jelle de Brue
The Happy Manifesto · Henry Stewart, Maureen Egbe
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Show Notes
Employee happiness makes a big contribution to a company's success, as can self-management. But how do you know what’s really working, driving the business forwards, and helping it meet its targets?
This week's guest is Pieter Jelle de Brue, founder of digital agency Statik, a company that values employee happiness and has adopted a self-managing structure with multiple autonomous teams. They’re continuing to grow and evolve, and one of the metrics they’re currently conducting an experiment to find out if what people say about employee happiness really does have a measurable impact on a company’s bottom line.
Pieter’s tips for a happy workplace
- Trust people to organise themselves when the purpose and goals are clear
- Run small experiments to continuously evolve and improve
- Value employee happiness as a measure of success
Links
- 2024 Happy Workplaces Conference
- Connect with Pieter via LinkedIn
- Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness, by Frederic Laloux