Friday, March 02, 2007

How Happy Are You? Really?

This from MSNBC: Americans aren't happy at work.

Overall, dissatisfaction has spread among all workers, regardless of age, income or residence. Twenty years ago, the first time the survey was conducted, 61 percent of all Americans said they were satisfied with their jobs, according to the representative survey of 5,000 U.S. households, said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board's Consumer Research Center.

"Although a certain amount of dissatisfaction with one's job is to be expected, the breadth of dissatisfaction is somewhat unsettling, since it carries over from what attracts employees to a job to what keeps them motivated and productive on the job," Franco said.

Interestingly - but not really surprisingly - the people who are the most unhappy are the ones who make the least money.

Americans hate jobs more than ever [MSNBC]

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