What makes employees happy... salary or work environment?

Happiness is the top priority of the Dubai Government, hence, a survey has been conducted across different departments to ascertain what brings happiness to the employees – salary, allowances, job security or work environment, etc.

Conducted by Dubai Statistics Center, the survey results showed that more than nine out of 10 employees – 95 per cent – believe that salaries and allowances are top of their needs to make them happier.

Tariq Al Janahi, Deputy Executive Director of Dubai Statistics Centre, said the results showed that the factors that make employees happy vary from one staffer to another. Therefore, the organisations needed a guide to plan policies and programmes related to human resources with higher efficiency to make their workers happy.

“Some prefer financial aspects like salaries and allowances as their top priorities to make them happy; while others prefer psychological factors like work environment and job security when it comes to job satisfaction.”

The happiest employees are…

The study revealed that employees aged over 56 years were the happiest followed by staffers aged between 18 to 25 years, then 46 to 55 years, then 36 to 45 years, and finally between 26 to 35 years.

The survey was launched to determine top 10 priorities of the employees to achieve the highest level of happiness. More than, 5,000 people participated in the study within a week. Among the participants were 52.2 per cent Emiratis – 41.7 per cent females vs 58.3 per cent males, indicating high level of participation by the employees.

“This is the first time that the center has conducted this kind of study of Dubai Government employees to provide important information to the institutions wishing to bring happiness to their employees,” Al Janahi told Arabic daily Emarat Al Youm.

The results of the study, based on Dubai Statistics Center report, showed that the institutions should put together programmes that can meet the needs of the employees and also improve performances of the corporates.

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