9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

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26 pointsjackbravo3 comments

Is it just me or does it seem like this article is trying to teach an organization how to make work appear more meaningful, even though it is the same work and probably not actually any more meaningful, and therefore get away with paying workers less for meaningless work?️

Not only that, I didn't really see a concrete suggestion of meaning, in the sense that the article only articulates what activity marginally increases some baseline level of meaning.

I don't expect an article like this to actually define meaning, of course, but some anecdotes of what "meaning" actually is to some sample of the working population would have been more helpful than throwing around a bunch of hesitantly low-risk workplace suggestions.

So that's why it's hard finding meaningful work - all you more qualified people are looking at the same jobs!

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