{"id":1721,"date":"2017-10-02T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2017-09-27T21:56:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T21:56:18","slug":"fun-with-coworkers-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/fun-with-coworkers-success\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Out of 4 Tech Workers Say Having Fun at Work Is Important to Company Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-four percent of tech workers say having fun at work is important to their company&#8217;s success, with half of them stressing that it&#8217;s &#8220;extremely&#8221; important.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/144-in-your-opinion-how-important-is-having-fun-with-your-coworkers-to-the-success-of-your-company\">latest reading<\/a> of an ongoing query by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>. More than 1,000 workers across the technology industry participated in the query.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The value of fun can&#8217;t be underestimated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From an employee perspective, having fun at work is essential. &#8220;Important&#8221; and &#8220;very important&#8221; were the most popular answers by far, followed next by those who were neutral on the subject (17%). The least popular answers were &#8220;slightly important&#8221; and &#8220;not important&#8221; (5% and 3%, respectively).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/144-in-your-opinion-how-important-is-having-fun-with-your-coworkers-to-the-success-of-your-company\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1728\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/wiggum.png\" alt=\"wiggum\" width=\"1307\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/wiggum-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/wiggum-768x213.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/wiggum-1024x284.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/wiggum.png 1307w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Importance diminishes with age<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While workers of every age\u00a0rank fun as important, it&#8217;s the youngest workers who say it&#8217;s &#8220;extremely important.&#8221; Among workers 18 to 35, the top answer was &#8220;extremely important;&#8221; among workers 36 and up, the top answer was &#8220;important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A highlight among younger workers (this is for ages 26 to 30):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/144-in-your-opinion-how-important-is-having-fun-with-your-coworkers-to-the-success-of-your-company\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1731\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1731\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/highlight1.png\" alt=\"highlight1\" width=\"436\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A highlight among\u00a0older workers (this is for ages 46 to 50):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/144-in-your-opinion-how-important-is-having-fun-with-your-coworkers-to-the-success-of-your-company\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1732\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/46.png\" alt=\"46\" width=\"419\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of\u00a0Oct. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-four percent of tech workers say having fun at work is important to their company&#8217;s success, with half of them stressing that it&#8217;s &#8220;extremely&#8221; important. That&#8217;s according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 1,000 workers across the technology industry participated in the query. The value of fun can&#8217;t be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/fun-with-coworkers-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[51,69,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}