Logan Roy would scoff at this article, even though it is written by one of the people who have surrendered to the Succession series and the empire of evil. The despot and foul-mouthed patriarch of the HBO series, owner of the Waystar Royco media group, would tell me his famous fuck off (fuck you), to me and to anyone who told him about companies with happiness bosses.
Isabel Gimeno Hernández, director of Ufounders, a Spanish technology platform dedicated to mediating rounds of financing for entrepreneurs, knows what I’m talking about. As the company’s Chief Happiness Officer, she is responsible for ensuring the emotional well-being of employees as a way to increase their performance.
His cargo, imported from Anglo-Saxon countries and from companies such as Google, Coca-Cola, EY, Deloitte, SAP and Airbnb, vto far beyond promoting the playful part of labor relations in the office, such as fruit days, team breakfasts every Friday or meals for couples to get to know each other better. She can do all of this, but she is also responsible for supervising the conciliation strategies, the choice of training that is given to the workforce and mediation between workers when discrepancies arise on a day-to-day basis.
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Gimeno is not the only head of happiness that has slipped into the organizational chart of part of the Spanish corporate world in recent years. Not as a naive position subscribed to goodism and defender of the corporate conception of happiness, but as a key tool in personnel management and talent retention in the 21st century. that can and should be evaluated and measured, at least, on an annual basis.
It is more than proven that having employees with optimal emotional well-being creates a good work environment -something that both the company and the workers must ensure-, increases the productivity of the workforce and provides benefits. As much as tycoon Logan Roy disagrees.