9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work
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HBR's Meaning and Purpose at Work report surveyed the experience of workplace meaning among 2,285 American professionals, across 26 industries and a range of pay levels, company sizes, and demographics. What they found was not expected.
9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work
In his introduction to , the landmark 1974 oral history of work, Studs Terkel positioned meaning as an equal counterpart to financial compensation in motivating the American worker. "[Work] is about a search...for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor," he wrote.
