Three Signs of a Miserable Job

from Harvard Business Review Ideacast

One person's bad job might be another person's dream job, but misery is universal. The author in the interview propose three signs of a miserable job.

Anonymity: they are not known by the person they work for and that person isn't interested in them professionally and personally.

Irrelevance: when the employee don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life, in some large or small way.

Immeasurement: All human beings need to, in some way, to assess their own performance that's objective. Then they're not left to depend upon the opinion or the whim of a manager once a year during performance appraisal. People need to be able to go home every night and know where they stand. This is why salespeople are generally very satisfied in their job because they have very clear evidence of their performance.