Work and Happiness

According to a survey by the attitude-research company Sirota Survey Intelligence of Purchase, NY, busy employees are happy employees.

A survey of 203,000 employees at various companies found people who have too little work are less satisfied with their jobs than those who are burdened with too much work. The most satisfied employees in the survey were those who say they have “just the right amount of work.”
Workers in the “just right” group rated their job satisfaction at 68 on a 100-point scale. Those with the second-highest satisfaction were workers with “too much work.” They rated their job satisfaction at 52. The least satisfied employees were those who say they have “much too little work.” They rated their job satisfaction at 32.