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Happy’s 4 Day Week: You Should Try it Too! (18 Month Update)

Happy's 4 Day Week has been running now for 18 months. Happy's Founder and Chief Happiness Officer Henry Stewart looks back at how things have progressed and the impact it has had so far.

New Workshop: LEGO Serious Play has Arrived at Happy

At Happy, we are always looking for new ways to create more impact and value for our amazing clients. We are therefore really excited to now offer LEGO Serious Play as part of our facilitated experiences.

Happy to Make 4 Day Week Permanent

I’m now back from my sabbatical and, while I was away, our people at Happy decided to make the four-day week (currently a six-month pilot) permanent. It has been a remarkable success. In this blog I talk about the key results of the survey that informed the decision to go permanent.

Learn How to Create Happy, Productive Workplaces With the Happy Manifesto Podcast

The Happy Manifesto Podcast, based on the principles in the award-winning management book The Happy Manifesto, will be launching on 12th January 2023. The aim of the podcast is to help people to create happy, productive workplaces. The podcast will be hosted by Henry Stewart, the author of The Happy Manifesto and CEO of Happy, and Maureen Egbe, Senior Facilitator and Confidence Activator at Happy.

The 4 Day Week on The Office: Re-Defined Documentary

Happy was recently featured in The Office: Re-Defined documentary, created by Inês Santos, Noopur Jambhekar and Anagha Raghunath. In this short extract, The Office: Re-Defined explores the four-day working week. Inês interviewed Happy's founder and Chief Happiness Officer, Henry Stewart, about the four-day week and our experiences so far. In our 'new normal' following the pandemic, is this the future of the office?

Happy Recognised as One of the Top 15 Workplaces in Europe

Happy is very proud to have been rated one of the best 15 workplaces in Europe, in the small company category. It is based 70% on a survey of staff and 30% on the submission we send to back this up. Everybody at Happy was involved and this blog is based on that submission, brought together by Claire Lickman and Lucy Blake. In this blog, find out more about Happy's culture that influenced the judges' decision.

Happy’s 4 Day Week: How is Our Progress? (A 3 Month Update)

How is Happy's 4 Day Week going 3 months into the trial? Happy's Founder and Chief Happiness Officer Henry Stewart looks back at how things have progressed and the impact it has had so far.

We offer a range of public classroom courses from our IT skills, Personal Development and Leadership programmes. These sessions are open to all. We also offer a range of Live Online Interactive Learning courses as public dates. Each of these classroom public courses will be held at Happy's HQ in Aldgate, central London.

We offer a range of public Live Interactive Learning Online courses from our IT skills, Personal Development and Leadership programmes. These sessions are open to all. We also offer a range of Classroom courses as public dates.

Happy Starts 4 Day Week Trial

Happy has just started the six month trial of a four-day working week being organised in the UK by 4 Day Week Global. We are joining over 60 other organisations in this pilot. We discussed it at a staff meeting earlier in the year, carried out a survey and our people voted 16-1 to go for a permanent four-day week, as long as the pilot succeeds.