{"id":6855,"date":"2018-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/9-out-of-10-people-are-willing-to-earn-less-money-to-do-more-meaningful-work\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T06:00:00","slug":"9-out-of-10-people-are-willing-to-earn-less-money-to-do-more-meaningful-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/9-out-of-10-people-are-willing-to-earn-less-money-to-do-more-meaningful-work\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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: &#8216;food, clothing, shelter \u0097 and meaningful work.'&#8221; This is a fantastic article that helps put metrics around the benefits of focusing on meaning at work, both for organizations and their employees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/11\/9-out-of-10-people-are-willing-to-earn-less-money-to-do-more-meaningful-work\">9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>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. &#8220;[Work] is about a search&#8230;for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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: &#8216;food, clothing, shelter \u0097 and meaningful work.'&#8221; This is a fantastic article that helps put metrics around the benefits of focusing on meaning at work, both for organizations and their employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2018\/11\/nov18_6_473092620.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43,45,42,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-engagement","9":"tag-leadership","10":"tag-wellbeing","11":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}