1047: How to Reignite Purpose, Happiness, and Motivation at Work with Jennifer Moss

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Moss gets to the heart of why so many are dissatisfied at work—and what we can do about it.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The driving force behind our unhappiness at work

2) 20-minute practices that rebuild hope and morale

3) Why remote work isn’t the culprit for loneliness—and what is

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— ABOUT JENNIFER —

Jennifer Moss specializes in future-focused leadership development, expertly balancing employee well-being with performance. As an award-winning writer and internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, she specializes in transforming workplace culture using data-driven leadership strategies. She writes for Harvard Business Review, sat on the United Nations’ Global Happiness Council, was named to the Thinkers50 radar, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, CNN, Marketplace, TIME, Fortune, Fast Company, and more. Her book The Burnout Epidemic tackled employee burnout and was among Thinkers50's "10 Best New Management Books for 2022."

• Book: Unlocking Happiness at Work: How a Data-driven Happiness Strategy Fuels Purpose, Passion and Performance

• Book: Why Are We Here?: Creating a Work Culture Everyone Wants

• HBR Article: "Let’s End Toxic Productivity"

• Website: Jennifer-Moss.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: World Happiness Report

• Researcher: Dr. William Fleming

• Book: A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara

• Book: Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier by Robert Emmons

• Previous episode: 201: How to be Happier at Work with Jennifer Moss

• Previous episode: 586: Insights on Working from Home’s Largest-Ever Experiment with Nicholas Bloom

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0:00.0	The big Gallup World Pool that goes into the happiness report
0:13.5	found that people would take 37% less pay if it meant higher work-life balance and flexibility.
0:20.5	Yet now we're seeing more people
0:22.4	double and triple down on less flexibility, which just erodes that trust. If you provide autonomy
0:30.8	and trust in your workers that you hire, that you spend a lot of money to recruit and retain,
0:36.1	they're adults. You hired adults.
0:37.8	So why are you treating them like children when you bring them into the organization?
0:51.1	That's Jennifer Moss.
0:52.4	She's an award-winning author, journalist, and researcher who works with leadership teams to measure well-being and improve organizational culture and performance. She's the author of three books, and today she's sharing her latest, Why Are We Here, Creating Work Culture Everyone Wants. So you'll learn, one, the driving force behind our unhappiness at work, Two, 20-minute practices that rebuild hope and morale.
1:12.3	And three, why remote work isn't the culprit for loneliness and what is. And if you want to
1:17.0	summary write about these actionable takeaways or recommend to sign up for the free
1:19.8	gold nugget email newsletter, found it awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is
1:24.4	How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now, here's Jennifer.
1:32.1	Jen, welcome back.
1:33.8	I'm so glad to be back.
1:34.7	It's been a while.
1:37.6	It sure has eight whole years.
1:40.7	Boy, a lot can happen in that time frame.
1:47.5	Could you share with us something transformational you've learned over the last eight years? As I've gotten older and I think become a little bit more aware that change takes a really
1:54.9	long time to happen and you sometimes move sideways and you move backwards. And yet there has been,
2:03.7	when I look back to when I first wrote Unlocking Happiness at work and now, why are we here?
2:08.4	You know, there has been some real advancement in the discussion around happiness and
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