Reports from the OECD and the UN suggest that Switzerland’s citizens regularly rank amongst some of the happiest in the world. So could we all be happier at work if we were a bit more Swiss? A recent article in the Guardian pointed out that according to the OECD world happiness rankings, the average Swiss citizen works 1,632 hours a year, 144 less than the world average. The average wage is $7,000 more than the world average and it seems the first rule of working more Swiss is do less for more. Could this be the lesson we could learn form the Swiss to be happy@work? Nicola Mendelsohn famously became Facebook vice-president for EMEA on a four-day week, but can it work for the rest of us? Is it the Swiss neutrality which makes them cheerful during their working hours or the high connectivity of its citizens?

If you want to find out more, read the article written by Harriet Winter “Happiness at work: what we can learn from the Swiss”