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SALT LAKE CITY — If you work in Salt Lake City, chances are your employment is contributing to your happiness.
According to Forbes.com, citing an online career site CareerBliss, Salt Lake City ranked No. 10 in a survey analyzing the happiest U.S. cities to work in.
CareerBliss evaluated key factors affecting work happiness, including "one's relationship with their boss and co-workers, their work environment, job resources, compensation, growth opportunities, company culture, company reputation, their daily tasks, and job control over the work that they do on a daily basis."
In an interview on Forbes, Matt Miller, chief technology officer and co-founder of CareerBliss, said, "It is clear that employees need not only a positive and rewarding work culture, but opportunities to grow within their company and their city."
Deseret News:
Jay Evensen: Measuring happiness is a futile exercise
Something about choking smog, freezing temperatures and early sunsets makes the subject of happiness about as welcome right now as a telephone solicitor. And yet happiness — the subject, anyway — is being forced upon us nonetheless.#dnews_tease
In order to generate the data, more than 36,000 independent employee reviews were analyzed to create a list of the happiest and unhappiest cities to work in.
Topping the list of the happiest cities to work in were Dayton, Ohio; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Honolulu, Hawaii. Bringing up the rear as the unhappiest cities to work in were Boulder, Colo.; Reno, Nev.; and Wichita, Kan.
But what about general happiness in life; is it measurable? A recent column by Deseret News writer Jay Evensen analyzes this question.
According to Evensen, "Any survey that delves into happiness is bound to get a lot of things wrong. No metric can explain how someone can smile or find balance and perspective amid tragedy and despair, or how someone else can be surrounded by all the good things of the world and yet wallow in gloom."
Still, it's nice to be ranked among the happiest places to work, instead of the unhappiest.
