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Abstract:
Job satisfaction is important to businesses because satisfied employees are more effective, productive and committed (Abdul, 2015). It has positive benefits on workers as well. Job satisfaction has a big impact on life balance, health, and economics. Yet only a fraction of workers are fully satisfied with their job. Over the past few decades, attention to how to boost job satisfaction has grown. However, still today 23% of people wake up feeling unhappy to go to work (Montuori, 2022).
Much research so far has looked at how salary affects employees job satisfaction and well being. Benefits such as healthcare, family, retirement, and work-life flexibility are also important to employees (Miller, 2024). According to Judge et al, the level of pay has been found to have a modest impact on job satisfaction and that employees have also been found to value a satisfying job higher than pay (Judge, 2010).
Newer research has suggested that work environment is also correlated with job satisfaction. Rosenkranz et al concludes that time spent sitting actually has negative effects on fatigue, and job satisfaction (Rosenkranz, 2020). Related studies about work environments have also concluded that health and wellbeing has a strong correlation with time spent standing. Ma et al concludes that there are health risks to sitting for long periods of time and businesses where employees stand for longer periods of time are actually more productive (Ma, 2021).
For both those looking for jobs and businesses the question of which, work environment or salary, is overall a better indicator of job satisfaction still looms. This project aims to study whether work environments like standing and walking is a predictor of job satisfaction.
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