{"id":3038,"date":"2018-01-15T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2018-01-04T21:32:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T21:32:53","slug":"workers-in-admin-customer-support-say-having-fun-at-work-is-extremely-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/workers-in-admin-customer-support-say-having-fun-at-work-is-extremely-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers in Admin, Customer Support Say Having Fun at Work Is ‘Extremely Important’"},"content":{"rendered":"

People in administrative roles and customer support say\u00a0having fun at work is paramount to the company’s success, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, when asked to rate the importance of fun, workers in these departments were the only ones who chose “extremely important” more often than “important.” The top answer among workers across all departments was “important” (39%).<\/p>\n

Admin<\/p>\n

\"extremelyfunADMIN\"<\/p>\n

Customer Support<\/p>\n

\"CUSTOMERSUPPORTFUN\"<\/p>\n

Overall<\/p>\n

\"OVERALLFUN\"<\/p>\n

Men vs. women<\/b><\/p>\n

Overall, 70% of men chose “extremely important” or “important” vs. 66% of women.<\/p>\n

\"MALEFEMALEFUN\"<\/p>\n

Fun is just as significant to\u00a0younger and older workers<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>It’s not just young workers who place critical importance on having fun — the percentage of workers who say having fun is either “extremely important” or “important” stays mostly across age groups. A snapshot:<\/p>\n

18 to 25<\/p>\n

\"18to25Fun\"<\/p>\n

36 to 40<\/p>\n

\"36to40FUN\"<\/p>\n

51 to 55<\/p>\n

\"51to55fun\"<\/p>\n

The latest data is new as of Jan. 15.<\/p>\n

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People in administrative roles and customer support say\u00a0having fun at work is paramount to the company’s success, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. Indeed, when asked to rate the importance of fun, workers in these departments were the only ones who chose “extremely important” more often than “important.” The top … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038"}],"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=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}