When I say the words workplace environment, where does your mind go?

If you're like most people, you might think about an environment like this, or like this.

Maybe even something like this.

Well, you're going to be at the closing doors, please.

What you probably don't think about when I say workplace environment is this.

But if you are one of the roughly 2,000 men who play in the National Football League, that's your office.

I mean, it's business.

Like, let's not get it wrong.

It's business.

The NFL Players Association, or NFLPA, is the union that represents the players.

And they recently conducted their first ever employee survey about workplace conditions.

I would never have thought to ask, are there rats in your locker room? And they gave letter grades to each of the league's 32 teams. This is really about, are we giving you the inputs you need

to be as productive as possible? The NFL is the richest and most successful sports league in history.

Each team is worth at least $4 billion.

Nobody wants to be known as the cheapscape.

Before, when it was rumored you were the cheapscape, it was harder to prove.

Now there's data.

And what does the data have to say?

Among U.S. employees in general, job satisfaction is higher than it's been in decades.

How satisfied are NFL players?

Now, you may be saying to yourself, who cares about the workplace environment of NFL players?

They make so much money the environment

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