Jennifer Moss argues that workplace happiness depends on systems, not individual effort. Burnout isn't a personal failing. Companies need structural change, not wellness apps that ask exhausted people to meditate harder.
If you choose happiness, then all these things are going to come after that. And I feel like maybe it contributed to toxic positivity because then it made people feel like, oh, especially in the workplace and organizations, oh, it's your problem, the individual. You're the problem for being stressed out. It's your fault that you're burned out.
It is so true that 70% plus of our well being and 97% of the burnout is not in the hand of an individual. If we don't change work, we have zero shot at any person. I think it's funny how the same words can land differently, right? As part of where we are. For me, when I'm asking people to choose happiness, what I'm really asking people to choose is practicing these nine practices that allow them to have more control over their inner climate, their inner weather. Right? I'm talking about choosing happiness as an outcome of these practices.
I think we can all have a role, but the more we do it together, the more we collaborate, the more we cooperate in this space, the more prolific this conversation will be.
Reducing Regrettable Attrition in Organizations by Fixing the System, Not the People Reducing Regret
