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Are you happy while you work?

Alex Bryson and George MacKerron


Happiness surveys typically ask people to say how they feel about their life experiences in retrospect, but smartphone technology makes it possible to collect responses on wellbeing 'in the moment'. The authors use this new 'Mappiness' data source to question whether we really are happy while we work.


27 June 2013     Paper Number CEPCP390

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Labour programme.