alued is so important, that in some studies it trumps compensation. A pre-pandemic study @KIZSPY2023
done on 988 full-time members of the Mass General Hospital Department of Medicine, i.e. Harvard,found that whether the doctors felt they were well-paid well or not had no impact on how satisfied they were with their jobs. So, what did? They wanted to feel valued.
The MGH doctors identified three factors in job satisfaction: being treated with respect, feeling valued by their leadership, and feeling that the work environment was social and supportive.In the end, then it's not enough to find work we like; we need a supportive environment with colleagues. That is certainly consistent with findings across scientific domains: humans need positive social interactions in an ongoing way. It may take some pressure off to know that finding the perfect subject for our interest is not strictly necessary if we can find the right social
environment.
But imagine how satisfying the workplace can be when these two factors are combined. Humans connect in a particularly powerful way when we work with people we link on a shared interest. Job
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