‘Can the employee and employer serve each other for the greater good – while still being a profitable business?’, asked Simon Lawson in his Masters dissertation. And at Lawsons, a family business that supplies building materials to the London area, Simon has achieved that.
At Happy we are engaged in the UK four-day working week pilot, with 70 UK companies testing the idea from June to November 2022. We've had huge interest, with my blogs on LinkedIn getting up to 10 times as many views as my other posts. But some respond by saying that it wouldn’t work in their sector. So I was very interested to read the book Shorter: How Smart Companies Work Less, Embrace Flexibility and Boost Productivity by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. This gives a whole range of examples from different sectors.
Gemma Beadle, the HR Manager at Advanced Technology Services UK, has a passion for wellbeing in the workplace. Joined by ATS Site Manager, Damien O’Neill, Gemma spoke at the 2017 Happy Workplaces conference about ATS’s achievements in creating a happy workplace. Read the transcript and watch the full video here.
18 months ago things were not looking good at Happy. In 2017, we made a loss of £180k. Rather than cutting costs, we took a look at our culture and values, and transformed the business. Here’s how we did it.
Elinor Schmitz-Jansen is studying for an MSc in Management at Imperial College. She is currently working at Happy, researching academic studies of happiness and meaning in work. This is her first report:
New features are regularly added to Microsoft Office 365’s assorted apps to improve user experience. These updates are so frequent that even regular 365 users won’t necessarily be aware of all the new additions. In July 2020, this included allowing users to control their PowerPoint presentation using Microsoft's Surface Earbuds. Find out more about this and the other newly added features in this blog.
Inspired by the Happy Manifesto, Reddico started the move to becoming self-managing in March 2018. In just 18 months it has resulted in happier employees, more satisfied customers, higher revenue and a big increase in profits. Henry Stewart spoke to Head of Operations Luke Kyte to learn how Reddico achieved this.
Why are the right charts in Excel so important? The wrong Excel chart can not only lead to confusion but may lead to the wrong decisions being made. Which should you use? Happy's expert trainer Darren Andrews explains more in this blog.
Happy is proud to announce that we won the Feefo Platinum Trusted Service Award, an independent seal of excellence, which recognises businesses that consistently deliver a world-class customer experience.
Happy has won the Feefo Platinum Trusted Service Award 2025 — an independent seal of excellence, based on customer reviews on the Feefo platform. In 2024, Happy received almost 200 reviews with an average rating of 4.7. This is the fifth consecutive year that Happy has won the award, which is every year we have been eligible — a huge achievement!
At the Happy Workplace 2013 conference Yvonne Agyei (Google Head of Benefits) explained how Google creates happy and healthy Googlers.
John Lewis Partnership has been experimenting with how to make people happy for a century. Its founder, John Spedan Lewis, was driven to create a workplace that functioned so that all parts of the ecosystem were in balance and worked to improve the whole. Speaking at the 2018 Happy Workplaces Conference, Sarah Gillard explains how the John Lewis Partnership goes about achieving its ultimate purpose: securing the happiness of all its members.
What would life be like if your employees were so engaged that work didn’t feel like work?
We are very excited to announce our speaker line up at our 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference.
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