Your job takes up most of your waking hours, so workplace happiness directly affects your stress levels. Nick Marks created a 5-minute test that measures your happiness at work and compares your score against your industry, age, country, and company size, then suggests five concrete ways to improve.
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The L in the Lightened Stress Relief Model stands for livelihood, or your career. For most of us, we will spend more hours at work than doing just about anything else. And for those of us who have workaholic tendencies, we will work more hours than we sleep. Therefore, given the enormity of time involved with our career, it goes without saying that the happier we are at work, the less stressed we will be. One of my wonderful LinkedIn connections, Nick Marks, has developed a 5-minute happiness test that examines where you are at right now and how you can become happier using 5 practical pathways to improve your experience at work. It also benchmarks your score by specific industry sectors, age, country, and organizational size. Just 5 minutes of your time can provide you with important career insights to help you be more happy at work and reduce your stress in the process.