Business research commissioned by the George Mason University wanted to study the effects of love and compassion have on the productivity at a workplace. Firefighters were selected for this study as that group of people tends to adhere to a “culture of joviality” which includes a macho, back-slapping, joking approach is followed. The research included both a qualitative and objective component to it. These people work in very stressful conditions. A lot of stresses were encouraged to be suppressed, or even bottled up. Yet the firefighters engaged in open discussions within their teams. One thing that stood out was they all used methods to completely divorce their work from private lives so as not to bring back home the stress.

Source:http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/creating-a-happy-workplace/

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