One of the keys to happiness at work is earning a lot of money, but what is equally important, if not more important, is that our earnings not be inferior to those of our peers, that is, of the colleaugues we compare ourselves to. This is revealed by a study carried out at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) that analyzes the relationship between happiness and income from work.
The study, published by Professor Eduardo Pérez Asenjo of UC3M’s Economics Department, shows that relative earnings affect our happiness and our job performance. Summing up: if the people with whom I compare myself earn more than I do, I will be unhappier and I will work more. “This confirms the hypothesis of what I perceived, but not the way I would like things to be,” the author of the study comments. “I would find it healthier not to compare what we earn to what others earn and I think it would be ‘better’ if these things didn’t affect our happiness,” he states.
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