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Q. A study on happiness found that only 23% of A&M&E employees are happy. From your experience, are our people really so ‘dukhi’?
A. I have a very different view on happiness. I don’t believe that organisations can deliver it to individuals. It’s not a Swiggy order.
Happiness is inside-out and not outside-in. One has to find one’s own happiness. I am not denying the existence of allegedly toxic environment in many organisations (not unique to A&M&E industry only). It can happen as a culture or due to poor/ insecure leadership, etc. One can’t wish that away.
In fact organisations are not conditioned to take care of the happiness quotient of individuals, though enough platitudes are uttered to address that. These days, even social media, I understand, contributes to growing emotional alienation of individuals.
The only way to handle this growing malaise is to inculcate self-awareness and be incharge of one’s emotional health and defy external negative forces to influence one’s internal thermostat.