Finding, attracting, and retaining the best talent remains one of the most pressing challenges for companies in every industry. Equally challenging is keeping employees engaged and fulfilled at work. How can modern firms ensure that the people who fuel the success of their business are fully committed to organizational goals? In The Happiness Index: Why Today's Employee Emotions Equal Tomorrow's Business Success , Co-founder and CEO of The Happiness Index, Matt Phelan, delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the factors that drive employee engagement and happiness at work. The author explores data collected from over two million people located in more than 100 countries to arrive at incisive conclusions based on real-time information from real human beings. The book approaches its subject with an evidence- and neuroscience-based perspective, demonstrating what people need to thrive and succeed in work and in life. It explains that "engagement" results from a person being intellectually engaged with their work while "happiness" is an emotional state that arises from a combination of factors. The Happiness Index offers a step-by-step approach to learning about happiness using real-world data. It provides practical lessons that can be applied by any organization to improve their ability to find, attract, and retain productive and satisfied employees and to ensure their employees and teams are positioned to flourish and professionally develop.

Phelan also includes compelling case studies from firms around the world, as well as executive interviews that bring the book's immense amount of data to vivid life. An inspirational and unique approach to employee happiness and engagement in the contemporary workplace, The Happiness Index will prove invaluable to executives, managers, founders, entrepreneurs, human resources managers and other business leaders. It will also earn a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in learning from the lows and highs to reach their true potential.