“Given that people are willing to spend more on meaningful work than on putting a roof over their heads, the 21st century list of essentials might be due for an update: ‘food, clothing, shelter and meaningful work.'” This is a fantastic article that helps put metrics around the benefits of focusing on meaning at work, both for organizations and their employees.
9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work
In his introduction to , the landmark 1974 oral history of work, Studs Terkel positioned meaning as an equal counterpart to financial compensation in motivating the American worker. “[Work] is about a search…for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor,” he wrote.
