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Data & Research into Workplace Happiness with Professor Alex Edmans

Aug 03, 202020 minTranscript available on Metacast
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28 years of data and found that firms with high employee satisfaction outperform their peers by 2.3% to 3.8% per year in long-run stock returns – 89% to 184% cumulative – even after controlling for other factors that drive returns. Moreover, the results suggest that it’s employee satisfaction that causes good performance, rather than good performance allowing a firm to invest in employee satisfaction. Alex answers the following questions; What makes you happy? Please tell us about your research Alex into workplace happiness? Why did you write Grow the Pie? How can HR and Finance work better at board level?