How to Kill Happiness at Work

WooHoo Inc. (whose founder, Alexander Kjerulf, sat down with us for a Q&A last summer) recently released some interesting findings in its survey of more than 700 workers from around the globe about bad days at work—how common they are and what makes them bad.

Some may argue that a bad work day could have nothing to do with the job itself. And that’s true—but rarely. The survey asked, “The last time you had a bad day at work, was it bad because of factors at work or factors outside of work?”...