Chapter 16
In the office
British workers spend an average of 42.7 hours a week at work.1 Excluding weekends and holidays (although many of us spend most of those working as well), that means we spend a third of our adult lives working – that’s over half of our waking adult lives.
It’s little wonder, then, that the workplace has a significant, causal impact on our happiness2 and wellbeing;3 clearly there is a lot of value to doing well in the workplace.
Unsurprisingly, psychological factors have a significant effect on workplace success. To give just one example as an illustration, one study of public-company CEOs found that a 22.1Hz decrease in voice pitch was associated with an increase in the size of the firm managed to the tune of $440 million, ...
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