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One Company’s New Minimum Wage: $70,000 a Year
The New York Times: The idea began percolating, said Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, after he read an article on happiness. It showed that, for people who earn less than about $70,000, extra
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This CEO raised all his employees’ salaries to at least $70,000 by cutting his own
The Washington Post: Dan Price, like a growing number of CEOs in recent months, is raising the minimum wage for his employees. But while the chief executives of companies ranging from Aetna to Gap, Inc. to Wal-Mart are upping their
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A Sniff of Happiness: Chemicals in Sweat May Convey Positive Emotion
Humans may communicate positive emotions like happiness through the smell of our sweat.
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Six reasons you’d be happier if you stopped saying “busy”
The Washington Post: A study in the Journal of Psychological Science shows that we’re much happier when there’s a lot going on in our life. But if keeping active and “busy” is positive for our
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The Science Of Why You Should Spend Your Money On Experiences, Not Things
Fast Company’s Co. Exist Most people are in the pursuit of happiness. There are economists who think happiness is the best indicator of the health of a society. We know that money can make you
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Happiness Gap May Favor Liberals
The New York Times: Conservatives are happier than liberals, or so decades of surveys that ask about life satisfaction would suggest. The existence of a so-called ideological happiness gap is so well established that recently