5 Immediate Ways to be Happier at Work

Hav­ing iden­ti­fied the rea­sons why employ­ees are unhappy at work, be it pay, bosses, office pol­i­tics, favouritism, etc, it’s time to do some­thing to get your happy level back again.  As sim­ple as it seemed, emo­tion­ally neg­a­tive employ­ees that we usu­ally see and speak to are always entan­gling them­selves with neg­a­tive feel­ings and never end­ing com­plains.  We need to work on the prob­lems to achieve hap­pi­ness at work for ourselves!

1. If you are unhappy on the com­pen­sa­tion and money issue, and you feel that the com­pany is not going to prop­erly com­pen­sate you no mat­ter how many times you approached them, then its time to get a new job.  You can get a higher pay­ing job if you have the capa­bil­i­ties and not limit your­self to the cur­rent one!  (Unless you lack the capa­bil­i­ties and you demand a higher pay).
2. If you are not on your boss’s list for fat­ter bonus or pro­gres­sion, then take a look around and make a healthy com­par­i­son with co-workers that are receiv­ing one.  Are they really bet­ter than you in terms of per­for­mance and results deliv­ery?  OR are there expec­ta­tions and tar­gets that they are able to meet, and you are not aware of and fail to meet.
3. If it’s the lack of lead­er­ship, appre­ci­a­tion, favouritism and poor judge­ment that is caus­ing the griev­ances, you might con­sider chang­ing a depart­ment, another job or the most direct, prac­ti­cal and effec­tive method is to cre­ate a report­ing struc­ture that you directly reports to your boss’s imme­di­ate supe­rior.  In this way, you are no report­ing to him and thus empow­er­ing you.  Another note is that, he has to be wary now that you are under his boss’s pro­tec­tion too!
4. If it’s the boot-licking and pol­i­tick­ing activ­i­ties your boss indulges that left you dis­gusted and unhappy, we would sug­gest giv­ing your boss the ben­e­fit of doubt first.  Observe to see if your boss does such activ­i­ties for his own inter­est or the entire team’s inter­est.  If it is on his own inter­est, then its time to move on.  If it’s for the team, you may feel dis­gusted but it’s for the good cause for every­one.  Some­times you will be sur­prised with bosses that do that for the team!
5. If it’s the bureau­cracy and red tapes that is blow­ing your mind away, then you have two options.  One of them is to fos­ter another set of think­ing that bureau­cracy and red tapes are nec­es­sary for the orga­ni­za­tion (such as banks and finan­cial insti­tutes).  The other, is to change your job that has more free­dom.  Espe­cially when these red tapes are pro­ce­dures that restrict your career pro­gres­sion.  But think thor­oughly before you do that.  The short term desire for free­dom may not be wise in the long run!

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