The Grateful Workplace!
Are you grateful for your job? Really? Don't "jobs" mean working for an organization that breeds egocentrism and selfishness! Most of us would probably move out of our jobs and into the Gig Economy if we could. So, what's gratitude got to do with your job? Quite a lot, according to Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. , the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude. In fact, gratitude is actually proving profitable for companies. How? Gratitude is a feeling of appreciation in response to an experience that is beneficial to us, but that is not directly caused by us. Unlike many other emotions, gratitude is highly social and oriented towards others. In the workplace for example, you might experience gratitude when a coworker sacrifices her free time to help you meet a deadline, or when your manager spends an afternoon helping you develop a new skill. Over the past decade, hundreds of studies have documented the social, physical, and psychological benefits of gratitu