Workplace Humor Increasing Profits?

Office humor and other pranks have helped land many workers out the door in many organizations. But a recent government study may change  workplace humor forever. According to the study, office humor can help to reduce stress, hypertension and many other physical and mental ailments. Yes, even that typical pain in-the-neck your boss gives you  (as well as other places)  traces back to a lack of humor or humanness.

Of course placing a whoopee cushion on your bosses chair before an important and serious meeting may get you in deep do-do. 

But many other important items can help to trigger a lighter atmosphere in the office. For example, humorous posters, banners and other reminders help to brighten worker attitudes and help to boost productivity. 

The results are in. A happy worker is a more productive worker.

The Japanese religiously use an assortment of techniques to keep their workers happy. They use everything from singing before each shift to exercise, aerobics and even dancing. More companies small and large have adopted this  light hearted business atmosphere to their office environment.  The price of not having a lively work environment have proven costly to businesses who ignore this new trend in boosting worker morale.

Those old school business practices of  the serious hard core office environment have resulted in higher employee turnover, increased sick days and lower employee morale.

What’s the most alarming statistic to businesses in a highly competitive market? Increased customer complaints and poor customer service. It makes sense, the  more unhappy an employee  - the harder it is to give good customer service.

All these facts have come to light to more businesses on the importance of cultivating happy employees by  finding ways to inject humor and a sense of fun in the workplace. More companies are catching on by the evidence of increased sales of motivational, humor-related and funny posters for the workplace.

As more companies focus on safety in the workplace and office, humorous safety posters are huge sellers. Scientific studies have long proven a touch of humor helps people remember better. Funny office humor by way of posters, banners and signs is a wise business expense especially if your business requires high employee morale.

And of course nothing gets a boring meeting off to a rousing start better than a humorous joke, story or antidote. Yes, with all the sobering economic news of late, we need humor now more than ever to keep the office, worksite or factory morale high. A happy worker works more efficiently, no doubt about it.

Work study engineers continue to study this fact and it proves itself true year after year. In fact, a person who is happy with their job and appreciated ranks that quality higher in importance than higher pay (although came a close second). But that proves how keeping your workers happy can add to better worker efficiency.

If you're a home based business it's even more important to keep your morale high, because of your isolation.  Many home business ideas have came out of someone's warped sense of humor.

Make sure your budgeting time to laugh during the day it will pay off in more ways that you can imagine.