Irish Examiner:  The joy of work

Workplaces look to make the labour experience a more enjoyable and balanced place, as companies struggle to fill vacancies.

Some companies use a traffic light system to measure how colleagues are feeling at the start and end of each day and week. Picture: iStock

Does your company have a chief happiness officer? And if not, why not? And does that make you unhappy?

This corporate wheeze has begun to gain traction as bosses and HR managers face up to the fact that it is increasingly hard to hold on to staff and, that once a job falls vacant, it is more and more expensive to fill, it being a sellers’ market during what has become known as The Great Resignation.